Out of subject, a little anyway - Debbie, Cym, Dottie, - we NEED a HS thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let's e-mail M.Dlugosz again today. All of us. Maybe the volume of the voice will speed up some changes here. No offence to anyone, but I sometimes have to plow my way through the preschool, early childchood threads to find some info!

She has actually stuck with her story that she wants to live in Germany for a few years as an adult, so she should have plenty of opportunity to learn French if she does!

Also, ds will take a mandatory Latin class in 7th grade next year which he is really looking forward to it!

I'm all for the HS thread too! I'd love to read everything here, but don't have the time usually.

^^send a quick e-mail to M.Dluosz today. I am doing it now.

Just the way I skip over the high school stuff, LOL!

LOL ^^^ but there is way less HS stuff

You're right. I'm so stuck on now, I forget these kids grow up!!!

I used to skip over the high school stuff....now I wish I'd paid more attention, LOL! I confess to skimming over anything in the "under 6" range.

Questions, You’ll have the archival advice at your fingertips when your kids do get to high school which will be sooner than you think- and possibly even before that!

I have no idea what the Coffee Shop thread is about.

Ania, email sent.

I am obviously biased since my dd is in a Spanish immersion program, but I would have encouraged the same language choice if she were in high school and had more options. Since we live in Texas, Spanish is a handy language to know. My dd has translated for me on numerous occassions and she is only 8yo.

One thing to consider is what language your child will have an opportunity to use outside of school. For us that is obviously Spanish. We hear it spoken and see it written everywhere. If you live near Canada, there might be more opportunities for French. This was particularly important to me because I want my dd to maintain her second language even if she is not taking classes in that language.

As was mentioned earlier, once you master a couple of Latin based languages it is not hard to learn others. Now that my dd is fluent in Spanish, she wants to learn French. She was playing an instructional French computer game this week and commented on how much easier it is to learn since she knows Spanish. Between her English and Spanish she was able to identify many cognates.

Another tidbit of information is that Mandarin Chinese, English and Spanish are the three most widely spoken languages in the world.

I'll send an email to Mark now. While I have kids spanning age 6-13, I think I tend to focus on the older ones with the idea that things will fall in place for the younger ones after I've figured it out. Poor #4 seems like cake, but believe me, that's after years of advocacy!