Comments on: Wee Oui!

By: sans moi

sans moi — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:13:53 +0000

lire oui oui Ã son enfant, mÃªme en VF, Ã§a demande de toute maniÃ¨re de la patience !

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 01:12:17 +0000

So cute…I don’t know if you’ve read David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day, but it’s a hilarious book partially about his moving to France and trying to learn the language. He says, “I wish I could just go back and start over as a French baby.”

I’d love to hear from you, or any of you, how exactly you get started raising a bilingual child. We’re a bilingual house too.

By: Sigmund Carl and Alfred

Sigmund Carl and Alfred — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 01:10:05 +0000

The joys of being ‘bilingue,’ of course.

Then again, no mistaking ‘bugger,’ ‘merde’ or ‘Le Big Mac.’

By: Maurine

Maurine — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:59:33 +0000

Loved this story! It reminded me of a day, not long after I had moved to New Zealand, where I was trying to explain to someone that the very first book I read was Yes Yes. Yes Yes and the yellow taxi to be precise. It took us a while to understand each other :grin: I thought Noddy was a great name.

Make way for Noddy, Noddy, ti da da da da da… :razz:

By: petite

petite — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:36:32 +0000

Rachel – I don’t think a lot of Noddy either and absolutely no offence taken whatsoever!

The most puzzling thing at first was that the Noddy book she has is in English. It would seem the childminder has borrowed Noddy books in French from the children’s library…

By: Ria

Ria — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:43:03 +0000

Your rightful horror of Barney is fully justified. He’s been used as a disorienting (torture lite) technique by US forces. Check out this link
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1355965,00.html

I am SO happy that nappies are part of my past life.

By: rachel

rachel — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:16:10 +0000

Sorry – my comment sounded a bit aggressive on re-reading. Definitely no offence was intended. It’s probably because Noddy is on very early in the morning here in London (way earlier than is reasonable to be awake) so I have a downer on him and his mates to start with.

By: Zebulette

Zebulette — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:03:08 +0000

Very funny! There are many gems like that in Franco English situations. I remember my mother getting started in French and explaining “Je suis bien dans ma peau” but instead of which she said “Je suis bien dans mon pot” :mrgreen:

By: rachel

rachel — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 20:43:35 +0000

It is a good thing that all the deeply unpleasant aspects of Noddy have been removed but it’s still sanctimonious claptrap. Only Barney, the purple whatever it is, is worse. At least Barney never needed to clean up his act. Very amusing story though, and your Tadpole sounds delightful. You might also be interested to know that the Famous Five series has also been “revised”. My 7 yr old is reading them, but she did question the other day whether or not she went to a “good” school like Anne and George, so I wonder….

By: vitriolica

vitriolica — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:13:42 +0000

bloody enid blyton.

petite…. I should start banging your head… the sooner you get used to it the better.

:grin: