This is a great thread. DS5 has pretty sharp language skills, but mostly because of imitation of, and corrections by, us. I want him to have technical knowledge of languages he speaks and writes, just as much as facility. I suspect that a lot of U.S. schoolchildren these days may get more rigorous instruction on syntax and grammar in foreign-language classes than in English, although I guess with immersion-style teaching that may not be true.

Striving to increase my rate of flow, and fight forum gloopiness. sick