Hi Lelask,
I am from Modra, western Slovakia, but at the moment our family is based in Czech republic /my husband´s base/. As a lot of my friends and family live in Modra, we are in Slovakia quite often. Simon is half-slovak and I would like him to be able to speak slovak and to have his friends in Slovakia too.
Regarding our daily routine: Šimon wakes me up around 6:30 a.m. and we start to read english books. He is persisting to push books into my face until I wake up and meet his wishes
. He wouldn´t mind me to read him forever, but approx. after cca 30 min I need to stop and move on with some house work. After brekfast we usually go for a walk. If we stay inside, we listen to english songs on CD´s while playing, cooking, or house-working. CD songs are also ultimate for every car journey: each time he sees our car he repeats : "ABC´s , ABC´s ...." until he gets it. If Simon is receptive, we go for LR sessions before the lunch, if not, we leave it for afternoon. His 30 min english DVD session I usually place between 5-6 p.m., before bath time and dinner. It is always hard to stop it, he wants it more and more... each time he will cry... Before I put him to bed we have to repeat his favourite night books and lullabies several times. He likes me to repeat passages from books /we know them by heart/, he loves to complete words in the sentences.
We started with books in the age approx 6-7 months, videos around 10 months and LR ater he was 1 year old /but more consistently during last three months/. Recently we have started Helen Doron english course once weekly as well.
During the day, I speak to him sometimes slovak and sometimes english /so I am not following the rule of "one person = one language" which is definitely not ideal... I am a bit worry about the result....hopefully we will not end up with some terrible language mixture
Where ary you from and what your daily routine looks like?
It would be nice to meet you one day.
Monika