My three year old recently came home from playgroup with a new word. Which no doubt has got the poor boy very confused. The word in question is ‘Nein’ (the German for ‘no’); which he likes to follow with the word ‘ten’. Strasbourg’s location and history means that the German language is used a great [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2008
The best show on TV
Monday, May 26, 2008
I am in the fortunate position of occasionally being able to benchmark French Television programming against contemporary British fayre. And I am afraid to say that they are both as bad as each other. Indeed the same could be said of popular music in both countries, but I would never dare to say so – [...]
Exquisite corpse : the show
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
There is a family game, which I knew fondly as a child as ‘Consequences’, the equivalent title of which this side of the channel is rather macabre: Exquisite corpse. Essentially ‘exquisite corpse’ (or cadavre exquis in French) refers to a method art-form by which collaborators add to a composition in sequence, either by following a [...]
Thalassa
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
There seems to be no such thing as ‘Prime Time’ TV programming in France, at least not on the national channels (France 2, 3, 4, 5, O). Nothing demonstrates this better than the Friday-night post-news slot on France 3, which has been occupied by the same show since mid September. At first, it had to [...]
Ass-purge season
Monday, May 12, 2008
Here’s some trivia for you: ‘ass-drainage’ is the perfect anagram of ‘Andre Agassi’; but I digress, that’s not what this post’s about, but I thought you might want to try dropping that in to an awkward silence sometime? Ass-purge on the other hand isn’t the anagram of anything; it’s the phonetic pronunciation of ‘Asperge‘ which [...]
Bilingual babies and toddlers don’t talk
Thursday, May 8, 2008
One thing we never really considered when we moved to France was how our children would cope with growing up in a bilingual environment. With hardly a sentence of French between us, let alone any first hand experience of bilingualism, we just assumed that their language skills would develop as normal – but in two [...]
Language development in bilingual children
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Extracts from “ASSESSING LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN BILINGUAL PRESCHOOL CHILDREN” by Barry McLaughlin; Antoinette Gesi Blanchard; Yuka Osanai TABLE 1: A Typology of Bilingual Development Based on Conditions of Exposure and Use Subsequent Experience High Opportunity/ motivation for use of both languages: Low opportunity/ motivation for use of both languages: Prior Experience High exposure to both [...]
Spot the Scotsman
Friday, May 2, 2008
Don’t be surprised if you hear the sound of bagpipes in Strasbourg this weekend; as Saturday’s parade of nine Celtic pipe and drum bands from across Europe will mark the culmination of the 2008 EuroCelt festival in Strasbourg, during which much squealing, honking and drumming will have taken place (and that’s just at the bar [...]
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