Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Parenting and Advocacy what would you do - 8 yo w/14 yo classmates?

Ok, ok, the yeas win. It seems like an unfathomable age difference to me. Really! But maybe we will give it a shot. I can PM anyone with the language. DS will be over the moon if he gets the chance.

Great! Considering your DS's interest and your ability to find someone to actually teach it, why not?

I am curious as to what the language is (please PM me) and I made a few guesses and want to check if I am right!

My DS attends 2 classes (he will be 7 soon) with 13-15 year olds because he progressed through levels at an accelerated pace that he found himself with those peers. They are Chess and Advanced Music Theory. He loves being around the teens and they help him out when he has questions and mentor him and treat him like a little brother.

I'd like to know the obscure language too! DD wanted to take Latin this year, but we had a scheduling conflict.

Latin is actually very easy to learn! I mastered it in about six months.

Me too, please! I wonder whether it's one with an obscure alphabet or pictograms...if it is, the writing demands may not be that onerous in quantity, but challenging in quality. Though I think if he'd get auditing status, it might help the other kids (and their parents) accept him better, and he'd learn just the same. Possibly better than them. I recall trying to learn Spanish in evening classes with adults at the age of 13 or so, and having to quite after a couple years because even though some of the adults claimed to study an hour daily and I wen over the homework during ten minutes in the car if that much, there wasn't any noticeable progress by then.
Though if it's such a small class and such an obscure language, they might be all kids intrinsically competitive in linguistics, and it might turn out to be a great group...