Day 17 ~ Multilingualism

My son naturally learned two languages, my native one and the local. I didn't want him to just learn Spanish, I wanted him to be at grade level with his Spanish peers, at least in non-common subjects. In order to achieve that, throughout his school years I have set aside time to teach him two Spanish subjects, language arts and history. About a year and a half ago, I asked a friend who has a degree in history to take over that one, knowing that he would do a much better job. For language, however, I feel completely comfortable. I love every aspect of it. As a child, that was the one class I never really needed to study for, I would learn the lesson as I listened to it. Language had no secrets for me, I always got a straight A. That can be the seed for my love of languages in general. English at school. Then French, German, Russian, Italian. I called it quits. I used to say, "I love Greek, but I'm too old to learn it. I'll do it in my next life." Fifteen years after that, I learned Chinese, which I now speak at home daily.