Showing posts with label English. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English. Show all posts

Sunday, 1 August 2010

New School Year for David

This is how David left the school 5 weeks ago, finishing his Kindergarten year, with his teachers Mrs Putnam and Mrs Volking.
And this is how he started again on Wednesday, he's a first grader now and is pretty proud of it. They change teachers every year here in California and they also shuffle the kids in classes so he has been last year in class with just 7-8 of them, the others are from other classes. On one hand it is a good way to get the kids know each other across the whole school, on the flip side one set of kids and one teacher for first five years as in Czech/Europe were kind of a stability in our lives.

Wednesday, 18 February 2009

California VII - Dejduv babylon


Tak jsme v posledni dobe s Laku sklouzli do categorie 'hey, guys'. Dejda prejima stale vic a vic anglickych slov a tak misto tradicniho 'mili rodicove', jsme jen guys, 'hey guys, co takhle si zahrat nejakou hru'. Do bezne mluvy se mu vyrazy ze skolky dostavaji cim dal casteji a tak zacinam mit pocit, ze je to trochu boj s vetrnymi mlyny, nutit ho mluvit cesky. Nastesti uz je dost stary, ze si uvedomuje, ze mluvi dvema jazyky, a kdyz se soustredi, tak je schopen drzet se jednoho nebo druheho jazyka, coz se ted snazim prosadit. Bud jednim nebo druhym, nemixovat prosim. Bohuzel v ani jednom jazyce nema slovni zasobu jako v obou dohromady. Takze kamaradovi na navsteve rikal: 'Now you can't see my kolenas' a doma nam vypravi nejake bojove situace asi v tomhle stylu: 'Pak prijel tenhle ship a udelal velkou shotku a tohle auto takhle flipped.' Smutne, ja vim, ale ocekavatelne a snad s postupem casu i zvladatelne. Nicmene to stejne zachranim jen pro nej, dalsi generace tady v tomhle prostredi uz nema sanci. Nejvetsi moje ostuda je, ze v cestine neni stale schopen dopocitat ani do deseti, v anglictine pocita uz skoro do stovky, obcas se mu sice plete poradi, ale zna ta slova aspon. Do toho je ve skolce uci pocitat i spanelsky a taky dny v tydnu atp, protoze jednak spousta deti je z hispanskych rodin a jednak je to tu oficialni jazyk, ktery budou mit i pozdeji ve skole. Takze se mi zda, ze tuhle bitvu zvolna prohravame a kdyz zustaneme delsi dobu, vlastnejsi mu asi bude anglictina. A to mluvime doma vsichni cesky a cteme ceske knizky, tak 1:1 s anglickymi, a sleduje ceske pohadky, ale stejne kamaradi a skola jsou holt dulezitejsi.