Re: teaching kids langs

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Irina Rempt wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Patrick Dunn wrote:
>
> > I have every intention of teaching my young children Latin.  And, if they
> > want to, Greek.
>
> Do you have any young children yet?
Oh, no.  I want my PhD and a husband first.

> You'll find that it's extremely hard; the best age to start teaching
> a classical language (or indeed any language that you're not fluent
> in) to a child is as soon as they can read adequately, say six, and
> six-year-olds have minds like kittens. No attention span to speak of,
> but they're interested in everything, that is, everything *else* as
> well as what you're trying to teach them. I speak from experience.
This describes me now.  :) I'm patient.  And little Alexander will be a
genius, I have no fear.  *laughs*

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