How about turning this into an opportunity?

I learnt my first German from reading Märklin catalogs....

Turn it into a learning opportunity, use google translate for the bits you don't understand and everyone involved will start learning German.

Learning a language goes fastest when there is a 'knowledge gap' i.e. you are trying to find out something and the gap can only be bridged by decoding the text....

Thanks you two for the great replies.

This is when I rethink the decision we made sending the kids to Montessori instead of German Immersion school! (Both were lottery based and amazingly they won seats in both!). Well trains and my horological books!!

It’s amazing that this hasn’t occurred to me. I did the same as a kid and now as a stay at home dad these are the sort of ideas I have us do frequently. This year has certainly sucked the juice out of my brain it seems!

I think I will do this. Both are learning Spanish and my older in also learning sign language. This would be a fun thing to add on. (Especially since they each have their own favorite parts of the hobby.)

Thanks for the reminder of creativity!
Pete

Down here in Oz we have a multi language TV channel which shows each country's news in the morning from about 0500 till 1200 for about 30 minutes , we mainly watch the European presentations while having breakfast & after a while it is amazing what our mind can pick up from what you were taught at school over 50 years ago . I was taught French & Latin for 1 year before changing schools & found that I can understand quite a lot of French along with some technical German having been a telephone technician working with different suppliers in that industry even to the point of having to converse with engineers in Germany over some of their equipment when we had a problem with a new installation .



Never to old to learn ,it just takes a bit longer .




Cheers Tom in Oz .