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The Come Back Kid – Lesson #TBA

  01/27/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Nyah 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)

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Nyah’s Breakthrough #2

  11/07/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Last 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)

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Nyah’s back

  10/17/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

My 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)

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News on the Nyah front

  09/11/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

This 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)

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Culture and context with picture files

  08/25/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The 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)

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Views and examples of acquisition of a FL via CI

  08/13/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Today 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)

Foreign language teaching & learning, TPRS

Today is the day

  07/10/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Today 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)

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TPRS with Nyah One Year Update

  07/08/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

At the end of last month we reached one year that we started lessons. That is equivalent to a little over a third on a (Continue Reading)

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An interesting crossing of mind related concepts

  05/24/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I read this in a psych report: “…. distinction between capacity to learn i.e. intellectual capacity to learn discrete bits of information and his ability (Continue Reading)

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Plans for upcoming lessons

  05/16/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

At the end of the month, my granddaughter will begin putting in more than the 5 day a week schedule for her French lessons. She (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s lessons

  05/14/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

At this point Nyah has put in 64 hours of instruction. That is a bit over one third of an academic year. Ben Slavic says (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s requests on April 22, 2019

  04/22/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

In today’s lesson (to be written up later), Nyah came up with some encouraging requests. One was to begin reading. I had already scouted out (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s lesson #111, April 8, 2019

  04/16/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Initially we did some personalized stuff and I did a very poor job getting her to understand ‘son’, her. tprs says tell them what it (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s lesson #115 April 15 vr #24

  04/16/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I had to deal with “teal”, the color of the pen she wanted to use to take notes. I had no idea what ‘teal’ looks (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s lesson April 12, # 114

  04/12/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

She taught me a lesson in tprs today. She did not recall ‘conte de fees’ = fairy tales and I tried to remind her by (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s lesson 112 April 9, 2019

  04/09/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I didn’t record this session but we did just one thing. I took the first chapter of the tprs book Pauvre Anne and wrote on (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s lesson # 110 March 29, 2019

  03/30/2019       Pat Barrett      2 Comments

I gave Nyah a template for a fairy tale – conte de fees – hoping to get her to create a story. It went: Once (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s lesson #107 March 26, 2019

  03/26/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Today was the first time in a long time I tried classic tprs 3 sentences with 3 structures and circled everything methodically. Well, close. The (Continue Reading)

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Observations on tprs teaching one student

  03/25/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Since I’ve fallen so far behind – to be remedied tonight – in transcribing parts of the lessons, I thought it would be good to (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s lesson #100 March 13, 2019

  03/25/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Going over the script of Le Petit Chaperon Rouge cartoon. Started by playing the video from the beginning. An argument broke out over wearing something, (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s lesson #101 March 14, 2019

  03/24/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Finish cartoon Le Petit Chaperon Rouge at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9OsRljQSbw I explained that I show her these videos not to teach her French but to show her (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s lesson #102 March 15,2019

  03/23/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I provided post-its with names of places on the map of the forest and she places them on the spot, e.g. la riviere goes on (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s lesson #103 March 19, 2019

  03/22/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Went over verb charts. When I pointed to the alternation between acute and grave accents in the conjugations, she asked what the difference was, showing (Continue Reading)

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