Posts by Geist

Quote: Originally Posted by ilovemygirl  It's crazy that I still haven't finished this book! I have to admit that although I LOVE a lot of what I've read so far, some things are really really starting to irk...

Quote: I could have written this! Many people have trouble understanding what I mean when I say my dd who is 5 just does these things because they were never optional. We expected her to and she obliged. There was/is no...

okay and who on earth added the poll atthe top of the thread?Bringing up bebe has nothing to do with the French or Americans being "more innovative" as far as raising children is concerned and it's completely irrelevant. Plus there's...

Quote: Originally Posted by terraka  Well, erigeron, I think whether you get it from this book or not, you will not be able to do it all on your own. What P. Druckerman describes is how the whole culture does bringing...

I wouldn't say Americans lie when they say this--I know I genuinely believed it when I said it! But I think it shows how very out of touch we are with our own culture. They say that explaining culture to people is like explaining water...

I love these replies mainly because they seem to view the book as completely looking down on America and Americans, instead of being a cross cultural study that it is. That is mainly how I viewed it and it struck a deep chord with me...

  Quote: Originally Posted by Ragana    Yes, that's right. It can work. Not that it's not frustrating sometimes! It is hard for me to get my younger DD in particular to speak to me - she always wants...

  Quote: Originally Posted by mambera      Thanks, that's a helpful perspective also - is German your son's community or minority language?  My DD sometimes uses nouns in accusative...

my son is 3 and sometimes uses cases--he gets words with colors right some of the time--like saying "brown soda" ==braune cola, or red soda, rote cola and some with animals as well (schwarz-weisses Huhn) but mostly just in accusative,...

  Quote: Originally Posted by Eclipsepearl  Another important consideration is what kind of community support can you get for German? Are you near any German schools? Even weekend...