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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I like love that you limit screens, and the benefits of that far outweigh any possible benefits of the French. I like the idea of the French-language music. I imagine you would want to search for kiddie music in French. [/quote]

No, you don't want kiddie music in french. We have Google home and tell it "Pley french cooking music." It's adults. I don't speak french so have no clue what they're singing about but every so often I ask DD and she will bumble through an explanation "it's raining, the clouds are pretty, someone's looking out the window..." so she's getting it. She started kindergarten knowing zero french. She's in 1st grade now and understands everything at her age level (if you explained a medical procedure she wouldn't get it, because she doesn't know the parts of the leg muscle yet, or how to change a car engine she wouldn't get it, because she doesn't know car parts), and [b]her accent we were told is better than 80% of her classmates. At home she speaks English and Spanish.[/b][/quote]

I suspect the good accent is due to the fact she's already bilingual, not the French music.  And why would French music aimed at kids not be as effective at teaching accent/language in a way that's enjoyable to the kids?  Just because they can understand "cooking music" doesn't make it fun for them.[/quote]

She is not the center of our family - the music has to be palatable to all the family members. I don't want to listen to French Ring Around the Rosie. And you're wrong about her good accent being because she was bilingual. Last year her accent was only better than 30% of her class. [/quote]

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