One of the ways I’ve been trying to increase my kids’ French exposure lately is through music. I’m aiming for about an hour a week while we’re in the car. Starting with an hour means we have car time left … Continue reading
Here’s what we’ve been up to lately during French time in our house: Fall colours French club At our French club a few weeks ago, I divided a white board into 4 sections – brown (brun), orange (orange), yellow (jaune), … Continue reading
Looking for worksheets? Here’s a bunch you may be interested in! Many are from Canada, and others are from France and elsewhere. Mostly free sources with a few paid ones clearly indicated as such. Canadian sources On this site If … Continue reading
I’ve read before (can’t remember where) that in order to achieve true bilingualism, a child needs a minimum of 30% of their waking hours in the target language. If a child is awake for 12 hours each day, we’re looking … Continue reading
I wrote last summer about how my biggest challenge in raising bilingual kids is getting them to actually speak in French. There is no question that they understand it. They also read it very well, and my oldest does a … Continue reading
I recently had a reader ask me this question: How do you keep improving and challenging yourself in French and expanding vocabulary? So, here we go – my top 5 tips for keeping your own language skills sharp. Note that … Continue reading
Over the summer, we spent quite a bit of time talking and learning about birds while speaking French. My primary goal as always was language-learning, but the kids also learned a lot about birds, which was a bonus. Granted, they … Continue reading
photo credit: Falcon Photography, Flickr 1) Accept it: You’re not French. That’s ok. Yes, from a language learning perspective, it would be better if you were Francophone. But you aren’t and you can’t change that. Move on. 2) Don’t sweat … Continue reading
I was looking for something to help my kids to learn and remember some grammar facts – particularly whether certain words are masculine or feminine. Ma grammaire en couleur by Envolée makes this process interactive and (dare I say it) … Continue reading
Butterflies are such a fun subject for kids. Even though we’ve studied them in depth before in English, we recently spent some time discussing them again – this time, in French. Favourite books: A caterpillar who gets left … Continue reading