One of my favourite teaching method is the "real-life". We are building our house in Tunisia and I use this opportunity to talk, teach and learn. It is not only my kids who are learning new things, even I do. Because I am the head of charge of this I am responsible and have to know everything about how to build a house, so that I can get what I want at the end. At the same time we, me and my daughter play in the house, pretending that we already live there. We sleep, cook, eat and go to the bathroom to wash up. We even watch pretending television, sitting on bricks. During this time I use new words that my daughter, mostly, do not understand in Swedish. She gets really upset and tells me over and over again: "Use the words that I know". I know that it is sometimes really frustratring to learn a language, and if I want my mothertounge to be complete for both of my children I have to use it in many ways. It is not acceptable that they only learn some basic words, not for me anyway. Language is really important for preparing my kids for the future.
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