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Photo Day: Antibes (Part 2)
One of my favorite things about traveling is meeting people. I approached the summer we spent in Antibes thinking I would probably be at least a decade older than most of the students in the immersion...
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Immersing in Language
There’s no doubt in my mind that immersion is the way to go when it comes to learning a language. It’s how we learn our mother tongues, after all. In my experience as an adult learner, I learned more...
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Boulder, Colorado: Where Caring About Fashion is Unfashionable (and...
Boulder is ruining my Frenchman’s fashion sense. Boulder is a place where anything goes. Seriously. I saw a 20-something woman walking along a main street downtown wearing nothing from the waist up....
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Summer Vacations and French Summer School
My month (+) long hiatus from blogging was unintended. I had big ambitions for July of filling up my queue with posts, photos, throw backs to some journal entries of different adventures in France. Of...
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Photo Day: Nice is pretty nice (Part I)
Flashback Friday! And cheers to warm summer days and nights. My introduction to France was in Nice, before the internet made research and reservations a breeze and when we still had to change currency...
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Photo Day: Nice is pretty nice (Part II)
Continuing on with my photos from Nice: Bassin du Commerce Reflections of Nice Nice from the Colline du Chateau Rooftops of Old Nice Accordionist on the Fete de la Musique Lining up to check in for the...
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August in France
The month of August in France: when the entire country goes on vacation. Shops in Paris close down, the Côte d’Azur fills with tourists. It’s hard not to love a country so intent on enjoying itself. In...
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What American Parents Do Well
Is anyone besides me beyond annoyed by the whole “Americans suck as parents” trend? From Pamela Drukerman’s Bringing Up Bébé to Tiger Mom to British nannys reading us the riot act, we seem to have the...
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Harvest Time!
This post is part of this month’s blogging carnival put on by Multicultural Kids Blogs. This month’s host is Varya at Creative World of Varya. Check out links to the other posts from around the world...
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New French Classes in Boulder!
My friend and fellow blogger, Sarah at Bringing up Baby Bilingual, and I will be offering French lessons for the 0-5 age group starting Monday, October 20 at Grandrabbits Play! So exciting! Our mutual...
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Triathlons
Before we left for San Diego this summer, I completed my first triathlon. Apparently, that’s what you must do to assimilate in Boulder. Either that or grow dreadlocks and walk around barefoot, maybe...
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Beer and the Great American Beer Festival
My husband likes to joke that they kicked him out of France because he knows nothing about wine. This is not entirely true – he knows more about wine than the average male, but perhaps not the average...
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Killing the Myths
This post is part of the Raising Multilingual Children Blogging Carnival. For other entries in this month’s carnival, check out Annabelle’s blog at the Piri Piri Lexicon. I’m lucky to be raising my...
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Lessons All Around
I’ve been unintentionally quiet this semester. I find it funny that I’ve gone back to thinking of the year in terms of semesters – but such is life when you are in school! That’s right, I’m back in...
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Le Père Noël does what?
Like many Americans, I grew up with Santa Claus. As December progressed, the floor under our tree would fill with presents from and to all family members – parents, grandparents, kids, cousins, aunts,...
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French Immersion for Children 0-5 in Boulder, Colorado!
Once again, Sarah of Bringing up Baby Bilingual and I will be offering a French immersion class for preschool-aged children! Our classes are fun, interactive, and immersive. Tuition includes admission...
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In Support of Total Immersion
I grew up during the old-school era of second-language learning. We filled in the blanks, conjugated verbs, and memorized vocabulary lists. Entry level classes, and sometimes even intermediate and...
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Fruit for my Labor
When working with preschoolers, it can be difficult to see if my efforts are making any impact whatsoever. I faithfully show up at my kids’ preschool each week (although this winter I’ve been sick more...
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April Fool’s Day, or, if you prefer, Poisson d’Avril !
I love a good prank, and April Fool’s Day has always been one of my favorite minor holidays. Despite the fact that my brother has, for decades now, tried to convince me I was actually born on April 1...
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Are we bilinguals?
For a long time, I’ve held lofty goals for my kids and for myself. I wanted us to all be “completely bilingual,” which I defined as nothing short of 100% fluency in reading, writing, speaking, and...
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