Hello family!
I apologize for the lack of posts. The beautiful thing about having a preschooler is when you send them to school well, it's almost a guarantee they'll come home sick and share the love. Yeah, we're all sick here but we're on the mend. The last few days weren't that great but I'm glad it wasn't anything more serious to warrant an ER trip.
Being sick does come at a peculiar
Tag: russian language
This week on Meet the Blussians (yes, it's been a while since I've done a vlog), we're teaching you how to say candy. It's pronounced konfety (think of saying confetti). We also teach you how to say шоколад or chocolate.
I hope you enjoy!
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsxLDy9XHDY&w=560&h=315]
Trying to incorporate Russian while I'm learning it myself is quite the task.
I'm a native English speaker. I know a little Spanish, but wouldn't consider myself fluent. I can carry a light conversation without the use of Google translate (too much).
So, learning Russian is a task. It's a fun one, albeit challenging at times. I try to have one solid hour each day of teaching Bear Russian since all he
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPz7LCybSNk&w=560&h=315]
I have to admit...learning another language when you're an adult is quite tough.
But I have to keep going. It's fun while I'm trying to teach Bear a new language (don't worry, Maks is speaking fluent Russian and Ukrainian to Bear) and learn more of it myself so I can speak fluent Russian to Bear at home.
So, here's a video of us teaching you how to count numbers in Russian:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3J80zwYvBc&w=560&h=315]
And
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m148vZDwJA&w=420&h=315]
Raising a bilingual child is well...a lot harder than it should be.
From the get-go, M. and I have always determined that our children will be bilingual in Russian and English. He would speak primarily Russian and I would speak primarily English (though I am actively learning Russian and try to speak a little of it every day). With Yoda not quite talking yet (though I'm told it's nothing