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)
Pat’s Polemics
On-going brilliance
Nyah’s Lesson Nov. 21, 2019 #
05/16/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentDeux personnes marchaient dans la foret. Sur le sentier il y avait un serpent. A! J’ai peur des serpents, a cri une des personnes. L’autre (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s Lesson Nov. 19, 2019
05/13/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentQu’est-ce que c’est comme carnet?Oh, what kind of notebook?*Marc a un “A” dans toutes les matieres. Est-ce qu’il est un bon etudiant?Yeah.* Chez eux their (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson Nov. 13, 2019 #
05/13/2020 Pat Barrett Add Commentla cantine scolaire – school?* (I read aloud a long piece in francais courant with me making notes on various items but overall not very (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson Nov. 4, 2019 #
05/08/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentReminder: asterisk means indicates she understood the French without props the baby eats solid food?* je ne peux plus……no more* le mais dedans le nez….what? (Continue Reading)
Threats to the program
04/25/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentFinally I got a lesson going via an iPad. It went OK, but Nyah wanted to talk about where we were going with this. Uh-Oh. (Continue Reading)
Ups and Downs with TPRS and the Virus
04/14/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentJust 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)
A 1959 remark on acquisition via reading
03/27/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentIn 1959 the author of Hausa Literature and the Hausa Sound System, R.C. Abraham, wrote this: (the Hausa are what is traditionally called in the (Continue Reading)
Nyah lesson 3/17/20
03/18/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentLong time since I’ve transcribed these lessons but I’ll start with yesterday’s in part because it was amazing. Then I’ll backtrack and catch up. I (Continue Reading)
Nous – observations and questions
02/06/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentIn NOUS, pp. 78-79 I’ve noticed some interesting things. A chapter is titled Une drole de journee. I had read that de is used after (Continue Reading)
Tour de force
01/30/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentAn appropriate title for my granddaughter’s French lesson today. For only the second time in over a year and a half I forgot to record (Continue Reading)
The Come Back Kid – Lesson #TBA
01/27/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentNyah has been absent from French for over a month due to college apps and illness but she came back today in a big way. (Continue Reading)
Well, there goes my lesson plan
01/21/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentFrom a FL teacher listserv: > I am doing a March Madness activity with my HS students and I already > have > 10 songs (Continue Reading)
Total misunderstanding of language
01/02/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentA member of a listserv for fl teachers told on her colleague who was a big-time grammar person. She went to Mexico City on vacation (Continue Reading)
Forcing output
11/14/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentOn FLTeach, there is a thread running on grading, always a hot topic………. well, not anymore. The battles are over apparently and the forced output (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s Breakthrough #2
11/07/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentLast breakthrough, Aquaman looking for a mermaid, saw no follow-up. Nyah has not been interested in providing details or variations in stories. But with the (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s back
10/17/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentMy granddaughter just returned from France where she had a good time with her mom. They came over yesterday to recount their adventures (some of (Continue Reading)
News on the Nyah front
09/11/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentThis summer proved a bust. What was supposed to be between 5 and 7 visits a week turned out to be more like three. Too (Continue Reading)
Culture and context with picture files
08/25/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe term picture files goes back for me to the late Tracy Terrell’s book Dos Mundos. My several thousand pictures (cut from magazines) are categorized (Continue Reading)
Views and examples of acquisition of a FL via CI
08/13/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentToday is the final day of IFLT, and it has been such a great conference. Yesterday morning, I got the chance to observe Linda Li teach Mandarin, (Continue Reading)
Is this an “infelicity?”
08/07/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentTill now, at least 50 scholarly and authentic books on Urdu grammar have been written in Urdu……. My question about this sentence is about “Till (Continue Reading)
Great quote on technology in the FL classroom
07/16/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentFrom Ben Slavic’s TPRS In a Year, p. 132: “If technology really helped kids acquire languages, then it would be used all the time in (Continue Reading)
Today is the day
07/10/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentToday is the day I do what I was supposed to do initially: circle. As I have reported in my earlier write-ups of our sessions, (Continue Reading)