A bilingual French-English friend who is raising her daughter bilingual French-English too suggested the other day (we’re all in confinement at home during the pandemic right now) that my 9½-year-old daughter could read an English book to her 3½-year-old. My daughter was thrilled. She chose a book and read it about six or seven times […]

After my 9½-year-old daughter brought home her first written English  exercise in January, a month later, she brought home this page of vocabulary:

Two days ago, my daughter came home from her after-school English course with her first written exercise. (Please keep in mind they hardly did any writing during the first three years of her course and that I focused on speaking and oral comprehension with her when I temporarily took over her English education last year. […]

My daughter is very keen on learning English. Since she dropped the after-school English workshop after three years due to conflicting activity schedules, for the past 5½ months I’ve been doing a weekly “English night” with her, mainly playing games, watching singalong videos, and singing nursery rhymes. In order not to confuse her any further, […]