69. Is it ever culturally appropriative to learn another language?

So since you've been back, I mean, I want to hear about the start of kindergarten, U.S. kindergarten.

But what has your German interaction been like with her in New York? Have you kind of rode the wave of momentum since coming back from Germany or has it kind of shifted back into its original balance? Yeah.

Yeah, I think we definitely had a little bit of a...

I don't want to call it a setback because I don't think she's lost any vocabulary.

But we are very lucky that her dad has been home, even though he's working a lot right now doing a show in New York.

And so we've had a very...

English life for the last couple of weeks.

And I had a school meetup yesterday just with some parents and got to speak German for a while and realized, oh, it's time to get us back on track.

And we're very lucky that at our school bus stop, because she's riding the school bus, which is a crazy big deal.

We have a lot of friends from our preschool, some that were even in grades above and below.

And there's a Nice German speaking parent contingency there.

So I get a little bit of exposure in the morning to to German, but we definitely need to get ourselves back on track.

So that's going to be my resolution for the rest of the year, because it's amazing how just checking out for a little bit, I can feel that muscle getting weaker even now.

During the week that my husband was in Germany, I was like, oh, I'm losing my edge.

So it's really just a nice reminder that the muscle comes back quickly, but you do have to use it.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

So what has school been like so far? Is it, I can't remember, I think you did tell us last time, is it a dual language program or it's full immersion in German?

It is technically bilingual.

So I think in kindergarten, so my daughter is at Global School of Brooklyn, shout out GSB.

It's been an amazing month.

I think the percentage breakdown is roughly 70% of their day is in German, 30% of it is in English.

So they have, I think they do social studies and English in English, and then they have which is really like learning to read um specifically deutsch class and then art and music are in german and sport classes in german and something called zach kunde which is hard to explain but it's a german class that's basically like introduction to various topics you know the my kid is learning how to properly brush teeth is was the topic for the last week, things like that.

So that's how her day shakes out in German versus English.

And but they also have lunchtime and recess time in which they are integrated with the Spanish immersion track.

So I think at that point, kids are using I think the lingua franca really becomes English a lot of the times.