The kids have learned as much German at the public library as they have at school. Back in Waterloo, you couldn't beat Cornelia or Vanessa into picking up a German book. Now they devour them. They got over the hump by reading German editions of books they already knew in English: Calvin & Hobbes, Ramona Quimby, Garfield, Chester, The Smurfs, and now recently Harry Potter. Cornelia has now re-read the first six Harry Potter books in German.
My own German, I fear, is about as fluent as it's going to get, which is to say, not very. At least in this area, I'll settle for living through the accomplishments of my children.
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