How do I introduce German as a second language?

[michaelad]

Hi there,
I am German, living in the UK with two little boys and am finding it really, really hard teaching them German (this must sound so crazy) because I am very comfortable with speaking English..and everything around them is in English. Anybody got any clever ideas?

[michaelad]

Sorry Moondog, maybe my post came across wrong but my lovely husband(who is actually one of the most selfless people I have ever met)does not discourage our kids at all. This was said by him with a smile on his face while hunched over his German vocabulary book! Please do not jump to conclusions...
We are not stopping our kids from learning the language, I simply find it nowhere near as easy as I assumed it would be.
Still many thanks to everyone's contributions so far!

[michaelad]

oh, and muminfife...someone who loves the Smiths..great! You should have seen me at the Vfestival here when the Morrissey gig started with "Panic"