Hi!
We moved to Austria in January and planned to stay here till September. Our two school aged children have been going to school here. They have an extra german lesson every day and the first 6 weeks went ok, but now the eldest (age 8) is very tearful and begging on an hourly basis to go home. The other (age 6) is not begging to go home but has to be prised into school each day.
They spoke no german at all before they came here - and don't appear to be picking it up at all. The headmaster has already taken dh aside and expressed concerns that ds1 is isolating herself from other children and has given up trying to communicate .
I'm not sure whether to abandon the experiment and go back to the UK. I think the oportunity to learn another langage for the girls at this age is a great one but I don't want to make them so unhappy.
Can anyone tell me if there is light at the end of the tunnel or if 9 months isn't long enough to learn the language and therefore not worth staying on for?
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how long did it take your children to settle into school and learn the langage?
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indiajane · 11/03/2007 09:42
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