28-06-2005, 07:07 PM
I never speak English to my children only Norwegian so with the result my mum was frustrated 'cos she wasn't able to communicate with them when they were younger. When we were in SA about 7 years ago, my son couldn't speak a word of English when we arrived ....we were only there for 6 weeks ... by the time we left he was not only speaking English...he was also able to read it. He was in 1st grade when we were there and only started learning English at school in 3rd grade.