tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081569415422539391.post5906826202560924866..comments2024-03-22T05:54:51.281-04:00Comments on de Jong Dream House: Concordia Language Villages, part 1: What is CLV?Nielshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14149605077357873033noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081569415422539391.post-175352507161701142017-04-01T18:50:03.910-04:002017-04-01T18:50:03.910-04:00Great, thanks! It's very new and still pretty ...Great, thanks! It's very new and still pretty rough, but I got my first Waldsee post up today.<br />reallywonderfulthings.me<br /><br />Maybe we will meet in the Villages someday. I wish I had more children so I had an excuse to attend more camps. :DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081569415422539391.post-64801120897672001842017-03-30T22:29:41.132-04:002017-03-30T22:29:41.132-04:00Link away! This was exactly what I was looking for...Link away! This was exactly what I was looking for before we attended camp. I would love to go back at some point! Jen @ de Jong Dream Househttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07734952011251720255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081569415422539391.post-68468401388596006252017-03-30T17:38:37.049-04:002017-03-30T17:38:37.049-04:00I'm so delighted to find this series of posts ...I'm so delighted to find this series of posts about CLV family week! You literally wrote the blog post I was looking for but couldn't find in the spring of 2015, before I attended CLV German family week at Waldsee with my son, who studies both German and Russian as a home schooler.<br /><br />We are going back to Waldsee this summer and I am preparing my own post about what to expect. I hope you don't mind if I link to your blog? (I'm working on the technical side of things now, so nothing is posted yet.)<br /><br />My (native speaker) father-in-law is thinking about joining my son at Lesnoe Ozero for the Russian family week, too, now that I've been talking up the CLV experience. I will send him to your very comprehensive review for more information, straight from the horse's mouth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081569415422539391.post-35116354866448352712015-06-29T19:33:14.249-04:002015-06-29T19:33:14.249-04:00Yep! I'm definitely jealous :-) There's a ...Yep! I'm definitely jealous :-) There's a STEM middle school that our son could attend. They study Mandarin as part of the curriculum for 3 years. I love that! By the way, I was a linguistics major, too!! I would have loved the language halls at Pomona. I wonder if Pitzer still has the Italian immersion experience. Jen @ de Jong Dream Househttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07734952011251720255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081569415422539391.post-82733029886898034272015-06-29T18:17:06.354-04:002015-06-29T18:17:06.354-04:00It's amazing. The dual language program is off...It's amazing. The dual language program is offered by the public school here in Texas! They follow the Gomez and Gomez curriculum, and the classes are about evenly split between native speakers of English and native speakers of Spanish. All the kids come out of 5th grade bilterate and bilingual.<br /><br />My college dorm, Oldeborg Center at Pomona College, had Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese, German, and Russian halls, each with a live-in native speaker to host events and encourage conversation at all levels. One year that I was there, there was also an ASL section.<br /><br />The Italian immersion was at Pitzer college nearly 2 decades ago, in their Summer Institute of Language and Culture. 6 students. 4 professors. It was pretty amazing! It's probably not surprising that I ended up with a BA and MA in Linguistics. I definitely speak Bengali natively, but I have greater literacy (and less fluency) in French.Sadiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16780935759685443488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081569415422539391.post-52746836980915215872015-06-29T17:10:56.413-04:002015-06-29T17:10:56.413-04:00I'm jealous for your daughter! I WISH there wa...I'm jealous for your daughter! I WISH there was an immersion school around us. And I've never heard of an immersion dorm! Where did you do the Italian immersion camp? Concordia has an Italian camp. That was my vote! As far as Bengali, who knows? We spoke to the Dean about Dutch and she said that several of the languages were added because of target language communities that worked with their organizations and found sponsors to start camp. We've already been in touch with the Dutch consulate to see if we can get a camp started.Jen @ de Jong Dream Househttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07734952011251720255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081569415422539391.post-41962624239415858592015-06-29T16:10:13.779-04:002015-06-29T16:10:13.779-04:00Oh my goodness. I LOVE this idea. My daughters are...Oh my goodness. I LOVE this idea. My daughters are in a Spanish-English dual language elementary school program and I lived in a language immersion dorm (French hall) in college. I also did a summer of Italian immersion during college. Perhaps they'll add a Bengali camp and I could help as an instructor one of these years!Sadiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16780935759685443488noreply@blogger.com