We just did our "Spanish 10 Minutes" for the day. It was kinda fun. Starting tomorrow we're going to use counters so we can measure the number of words we are using (per minute). It may seem silly, but when I look at graphs and see that one of my desired behaviors is increasing, it encourages me to see how much better I can do!
One very cool thing that happened tonight was that our 2 children were present for our Spanish session. Since we could only talk in Spanish, we had to talk to THEM in Spanish. We realized very quickly that M. and E. will pick up the language (even still) very quickly if we use it around them more consistently.
I was in the middle of baking some cookies. By the end of our 10 minutes, both kids were responding to the question, "Quisiera una galleta?/Would you like a cookie?" with "Si, por favor" AND they were requesting cookies with, "Mas galletas, por favor/More cookies, please".
Of course we fit in other phrases/words (Necessita ayudar?/Do you need help?; Que es un dificil __/That one is hard, and some others). We still got stuck quite a bit but we did make a greater effort than ever to use what we know.
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By the way, I have no idea if the translation in the title is correct. :) Actually, I have no idea if any of the Spanish in the post is correct. :)
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