Working with the
children in Reception is a learning experience for me too. Using our Mother Tongue helps when learning a new language. I have seen this in action when the children happily share their mother tongue with me. This week I have been learning a
couple of Czech and Spanish words:
Diego had forgotten
the word submarine and explained it as: "something that goes under the
water." I told him it was called a submarine and he said: "It is a
little bit similar in Spanish: submarino."
Ema is always eager to
tell me words in Czech. A bicycle is a "kolo" and she said:
"Blue is modry. In Czech is 'modri auto' (blue car).”
Erik has learned so
much English this year but it doesn't bother him to throw in a German word if
he doesn't know or remember the English one: "I did go in that airplane to
'Frankreich'" and "Clint look, now we can do the 'hinter' side."
You can also just make
up your own words of course. Two children didn't know the word submarine. They
called it a "boatfish", why not?
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