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To: energyplay who wrote (31605)	4/16/2003 2:24:06 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Yes, knowing more than one language is very useful. Then Concentration and Focus, which means listen. People who are able to concentrate and focus can do anything. I am using my daughter as my guinea pig for my experiments. People choose to teach first their mother tongue to their kids and then, only after, teach them a second language. I am against that, and my work helps my daughter on that: Her first words were in Bahasa Indonesia. Then bi-lingual English-Swedish school at age of 2 and 1/2 years. Then English and Czech with other kids. Now Portuguese and English back in Brazil. I spend a lot of money in her bi-ligual school, but don't put her on a Brazilian school.She speaks Portuguese with my wife; turns around speak English with me. Turn again and speaks Portuguese. Very difficult to spell, read and write two languages at the age of seven, but it took only six months and she now manages the two of them. Always listen. Always listen I tell her. Take sometime listening. When you don't need to listen, play. We tried teaching her lots of stuff: swimming, horseback riding, ballet, Chinese painting and (being a Brazilian) soccer. She can do all that. Problem is: I can't watch any film that's is not kid stuff my films in front of her she listens to everything single word. She came here for six weeks and learned Chinese painting with a Chinese teacher, with the wife of a friend fo mine translating the instructions into English. Her own son -who is two years older and understands Chinese-couldn't manage even the technique of holding the brush. My daughter came back with a Penguin and a Panda bear painted in her first class.

To: energyplay who wrote (31605)	4/16/2003 3:05:09 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Latest SARS update here.... Public health now says if you have symptoms then ASSUME YOU DO HAVE SARS....... Now cannot be directly linked back to the original hospital... Should I rent Outbreak this weekend... EDIT not linked DIRECTLY to a known case.