As German my first foreign language was English. But before that my parents made a journey to Italy with my sister and me. There we played with the Italian children near the sea and sang songs with them. Later in school or among peers (I mean friends) we learnt songs in different languages: Sakura Japanese, Bela Ciao; Cucù, cucù L'inverno l'è passato Italian, (https://youtu.be/rJ7K2_Z-Crk?si=KcclfmKDyQhlA2ov), Avarot, Hebrew. Frère Jaques, French. When I wasten and my sister twelve my father took us on a jourey to London and for the first time I heard real spoken Mothertongue English... British. And as my father had to go to a conference my sister and me went sightseeing on our own. And asked people for the way, for the time...Very impressing. Then we had a Spanish girl helping my mum with the three youngest children (from us altogether seven) and she used to talk a lot in Spanish and her song bringing them to sleep "Vamos ala cama.." I had a persian classmate, from her I learnt "Chodafes" to say good bye. After two years of English in School I started French. My father taught my family and neighbors some Russian once a week. After school I worked in an orphanage in Haiti for some time where I used my French and learnt a bit of the local Kreol. Back home I started teaching German and learnt some Turkish and Arabic. Short time ago I started learning Chinese.

@Juliana Russell so the whole Sunday, today, the meeting is open. I suggest that those who want to meet join in on the full hour. This will reduce seeing no one. Or set two or four times during the day.

This is so wonderful!!! Thank you for sharing, and thanks to your kids.

Three freezy sunny days.

I am in a city in the North of Germany. We had so much snow these days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08Bm8q3MGDw About the weather "Elli".