Maybe we felt bad about Trump supporters and Trump voters being ridiculed by the leading-lights of the major culture, esp for thinking they are the (Continue Reading)
Maybe we felt bad about Trump supporters and Trump voters being ridiculed by the leading-lights of the major culture, esp for thinking they are the (Continue Reading)
This from Meacham’s Soul of America quoting Richard Hofstadter: “…. growth of the mass media of communication and their use in politics have brought politics (Continue Reading)
An article on child acquisition of the ergative forms in Basque finds that Basque children receiving bilingual input, i.e. two different languages being used in (Continue Reading)
Tracking one student has its advantages. When you are working with a group of students, it’s hard to notice what each one is acquiring. My (Continue Reading)
In these pages I often stress the persistence of African cultural traits in the New World. Those traits came from Africans brought here during the (Continue Reading)
Vous allez ecrire des notes. Why do I have to take notes?* She picked a gender neutral name for a character who was the object (Continue Reading)
Started with more complex grammar and even that I got wrong! Then some cultural stuff.That I got right. Qu’est-ce que vous buvez quand vous avez (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s BirthdayShe said something in French and I missed recording it! Here is the story again: Deux personnes marchaient dans la foret. Sur le sentier (Continue Reading)
This is another story and she asks for clarifications but there is a lot of new vocabulary. She recalled ‘boue’ and she comprehended most but (Continue Reading)
Est-ce que une jeune fille est un garcon? No*La jeune fille travaille au Disneyland. Est-ce qu’elle travaille au Disneyworld?No. DisneyLAND* Elle conduit….drive?”Dort….I don’t knowFrere Jacques, (Continue Reading)
The packageWhy is there Y there? Y stands for ,….But isn’t there a word y?I didn’t know that was a world wide epidemic (hippies)Why is (Continue Reading)
After transcribing this I think I would say the “structures” are l’ and avoir peur and Asked for leaving the question words up. Qui est (Continue Reading)
Bishop Desmond Tutu led his country into an era he called Truth and Reconciliation. South Africa had been as bad as the American South; worse, (Continue Reading)
Just as my granddaughter was getting back into the swing of things with French, the virus hit. She has stayed away for a week or (Continue Reading)
Four states, all Republican governors. Arkansas, Nebraska, Iowa, North and South Dakota. Iowa really surprises me.
What is the point in finding out the identity of a whistle blower? To punish him, of course. But why punish him what the whistle (Continue Reading)
It’s really simple: people who gravitate to the right are authoritarians. Cultural relativity undermines that. Cultural relativity states that all societies face the same basic (Continue Reading)
So easy to ridicule liberals …. or Liberals. They are now taking to saying “Latinx” instead of Latin, Latino, or Latina. Seems silly, right? Just (Continue Reading)
There is a lot here I agree with: (it’s from The Bulwark) 1. Trump Would Destroy Bernie If the polls are to be believed, Bernie (Continue Reading)
In the wake of the Civil Rights Act passing, some people took it seriously. Here is an example of what happened (from Rick Perlstein’s Before (Continue Reading)
From a FL teacher listserv: > I am doing a March Madness activity with my HS students and I already > have > 10 songs (Continue Reading)
Reading an article in the New York Review of Books, I discovered that the colonists before the revolution in this country had a take on (Continue Reading)
Our first lesson after her trip to France. She continues to delight me with her observations and questions. We did a little planning, basically our (Continue Reading)