Little Pim: Using Every Day Words

It has been a while since I have given an update on our journey of learning German with Little Pim.  Things have been going great.

The weather was really nice for a while and then we went on vacation, so we haven’t watched our videos as much as I thought we would be doing.  I did want to give you an idea of how things are going, though. 

Here is a video of Cole telling me the items in a place setting in German (it was his idea to do the video to send to Grandma – I’m sure she won’t mind us sharing it).  These terms are in German:Eating and Drinking, DVD 1.  It is very easy to go over these translations since we use at least one of these for every meal or snack.  We also go over these as the kids “help” me unload the dishwasher. 

Charley grabs a fork and says, “Dobble” and “Messa” for knife.  For those of you that don’t know knife is ein Messer and fork is eine Gabel.  So she is really getting it and she isn’t even 2 yet.  I am so impressed with how easy introducing these translations really are.  Since they are items and terms we use and see every day, it is really easy to reinforce them and use repetition.

In case you are unfamiliar with our foreign language adventure I approached Little Pim about doing this series together.  I chose to use Little Pim after doing a lot of research on my own about a program to introduce a foreign language to my children.  I had already chosen to use Little Pim before I even contacted them about this series.  I had planned on purchasing the set myself.  But instead, Little Pim provided me with their Little Pim Three Pack German to create this series documenting our journey. 

I will have more next week.

Are you considering introducing another language to your children?

Kim