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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think what you are feeling is normal but I also think it's an unfair expectation for your kids to have more interest than you did.[/quote]

I know so many kids of immigrants who resisted learning the language their parents tried to teach them. They regretted it later, but it’s pretty normal. Almost none gain real proficiency anyway they knew some phrases and have the pronunciation down and that’s about it.[/quote]

As a counter example, I loved being able to speak a “secret” language that only me and my family spoke. Teaching my (3rd gen) child the foreign language now — he’s almost 3, and while it’s not as good as his English, he fully understands me and mostly speaks to me in the foreign language. His favorite cartoon (dubbed version of Caillou) is in the foreign language. When my parents visit, by the end of the week, he’s pretty much back to fully speaking in the foreign language.

It can be done. I think there’s a lot of cope on this topic and I frequently feel a need to down play his language skills to others out of social politeness. [/quote]

Why so secret the language [/quote]

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