If Zoe wants to learn Spanish, teach her Spanish! It will help her with French, if she ever decides to learn French. Once I was in front of everyone speaking Spanish and put the pronoun on the wrong side of the verb, where it goes in French. I don't think anyone else noticed. The difference between haricot and fève is probably the same as between frijol and haba, though haricot and frijol are not cognates. Arithmetic in French is the same until you get to soixante-dix. Well, there's also sixteen, which is dieciséis but seize.
Thank you so much Amanda for addressing this! I've been following your channel for a while and find it extremely helpful! We plan on starting homeschooling officially in September, and we are a fully francophone family from your community. This has been one of my main concerns. And making sure we have a French speeking homeschooling community for support, social gatherings, and activities. If anyone reads this and is looking for the same thing in the Greater Sudbury Area, please comment so we can connect. We now have a group of 7 families that get together 1-2 times/week. All our children are fully francophone and can finally play and communicate without having to revert back to english. It has been a great thing for my daughter, who struggled for the first 3 years of her life to even have French speaking friends. ❤
That's awesome!!! Sometimes you need to make your own co-ops and a French one is definitely needed! One of those "if you build it, they will come" situations.
This is so true!!!!! We are a bilingual family from Québec and my spouse is french ( France) I also wondered what pastèque was when he first used that word!! I agree a lot of the french books use an extremely proper french and even as a french speaking adult I find it too proper. Makes it hard to read sometimes. I do all my official homeschooling in English but we end up mixing it all up anyways. However for french we are fortunate enough to have french teacher come 1X a week as I am not comfortable teaching french. To add to that we have been able to find a lot of french games as well as a version of teachers pay teachers in french, as well as some online apps and tv shows. If ever you would like me to share what we have it would be my pleasure if it could help some of your members here. Just let me know how to send it all to you. My son learns well with games so we have a whole lot of those.
La librairie des ecoles is the only resource we've been satisfied with as french speaking moms here. Myself and my friend has started using it successfully last year and they have good options, but again not amazing, and on top we need to order from france which was an experience in itself. I believe even a non native speaker could use 'some' of their programs. But I gave up a few years back at both creating material while teaching in french. I can't do both at once with a bigger family. Maybe once I retire homeschooling I can put to paper what I wish we had! For now I just translate math in the younger years but once they read by themselves it's english again (math mammoth). We read some french books (hard to find good quality at a descent price and reduced options in libraries), and that's pretty much it as the quality of the material is just not up to par to it's english equivalent.
I am not Canadian, and I had trouble understanding some of your French words. I know «pourpre», but I thought at first you said «paupre». My father was French from Normandy and my mother was Salvadoran (I don't know if there's a distinct Salvadoran dialect or accent of French).
Thanks a lot for addressing this subject. I'm from Quebec, we homeschool in French and I find it a lot difficult to be creative to teach my kids without all the unit study and ressources available in French. Often what I found is incomplete or not appropriate for what we need. We do have a lot of rules and restrictions here so I happen to use a lot of "regular" school books to cover what we NEED to keep our right to homeschool our children. Thanks again, I really like your videos and I find it very inspiring in our homeschool journey ✨
I wish Quebec would relax their rules a little because I really think you'd see a big influx in programs coming out of there for other families. Awe well, one can only dream.
Near the end of your video, you said there are many more options other than DUOLINGO for parents who speak French but didn’t go into them! Anything to add? :-) thanks! This video was what I needed to know I wasn’t crazy for having a hard time!
No you're not crazy, it's just French homeschooling. There are lots of other second language programs (like rosetta stone) or even other french curriculums But since I personally haven't tried them, I don't endorse them. But if you're looking for more, search facebook for french homeschool resource groups and people share lots of options and opinions there.
Omg about a month ago we ran through the Wendy’s drive through and there was a game in the kids pack and the ‘purple’ card had ‘pourpre’ as the French version I was so confused. I had never heard that before. My mother in law was Cape Breton - Acadian French the speed and accent was difficult!
Hi! I know you said you don't have TV or streaming, but we are a fully francophone family and get our French programs from Netflix and Telequebec. The magic school Bus and Story Bots are 2 of our favorites that can be watched on Netflix. As for TeleQuebec, we like Passe-partout (also reminiscent of my childhood). What kind of programming are you looking for if not tv or streaming?
While I'm not sure what services you use, we use Prime, Netflix and Disney and you'll find that most DVDs and shows can played in various languages. Especially if they are cartoons.
