Welcome to 'Bridging The Linguistic Gap'

This blog will follow my attempts to teach myself and my children Hungarian. I am half English, half Hungarian and have longed to speak the language. Now is the time.

Maybe I've gone a bit crazy or got a bit over enthusiastic one day -when I decided to do this, but I really do think I can ... teach myself and also teach my children to speak Hungarian and connect with a part of our identities that is usually hidden.

keep your language alive... Speak it, Read it, Keep it - this is the slogan for my online bookstore - Mother Tongue Books. My store sells bilingual children's books, you can visit at the link below.

So now it's time to stop telling everyone else with a foreign connection to develop their mother tongues and start doing it myself.

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Monday, 26 April 2010

New Start

Our first day of the new term at the Hngarian Cultural Group went very well. I was so impressed with lovely hubby as he just totally embraced the pre-school group with S He said he enjoyed it and just got stuck in. S enjoyed it too and it was great to see him teaching LH the numbers 1-4 rather than the other way around.

D's class was new and there was only the two of them. (D and an 8yr old boy with a Hungarian mother) they both could not speak Hungarian so it was a total beginers class. She came out quite grumpy, I think she found it hard and different and the teacher's accent was a little difficult to understand at times. but later in the day, she said she was really pleased to go there. So I hope she remembers that when we go next.

My class was rock hard. I'm just about hanging in there. But i'm loving it.

So far so good!

Monday, 19 April 2010

Language classes mark 3

Ok we start another version of family learning this week. I will go to adult class. Wonderfully, d can go to a starter group for children who can't speak Hungarian - Thankyou Hungarian Group for starting this up just in time for us to be there! and lovely hubby - as I will now call him has yet again agreed to take s to the pre-school group.

This better go ok...

Bilingual UK

I've decided to start a google group dedicated to bilingualism in the UK. You can e-mail this group at mothertonguebooksuk.googlegroups.com rather a long name I know.

Hopefully it will become a great site for resources, information exchange and discussion. Let's see.