Which foreign language should we do as a family?! Can't decide!

[fillyjonk]

We have no especial links to any language really, except Welsh...and what is putting me off Welsh is the lack of Welsh cinema...

I quite fancy going on holiday to France quite a lot (out of necessity, obv) and I am fond of foreign language arthouse films, obv a lot of these are French.

But there are quite a lot of other languages out there

I like Swedish films and books

I like studio ghibli (japanese)

I know a bit of yiddish. my degree is in dead langauges incl hebrew, egyption and ugaritic. also i have done latin and greek eons ago.

This is what I am working with atm. Thoughts please!

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Enjoy it Ellbell , might pick your brains afterwards. We will hopefully be somewhere on the Cote de Nacre, but may go for the Cotentin in future years (just find Cherbourg a bit underwhelming as "nearest large town"!)
My sister spent some time at the very top, not far from Cherbourg, and said the scenery is really stunning. I used to live in Caen so Luc/Langrune etc are home territory for me

Cherbourg v. underwhelming. We just use it as port of arrival and then leg it. (The acquarium is very good, though, if it rains.) I recommend Carteret for the most fabulous family beach. We're staying near La Haye du Puits this year, which is a bit further down. Will report back on return. (We find that further south than that - e.g. Granville - gets a bit too touristy for us.)

Great resources there Sam. Wish my dd was learning French next year (Yr3) rather than Spanish...

ellbell we satyed near briquebec (nice little town on market day)just up from haye du puits ...might see what i can find for spanish resources later...usually if you try boys day schools they seem to have websites with stuff
marina, i too lived near caen for 6 mths but that was a long time ago..are you french?

Ah non Samanthar, MFL student spending a year failing her DEUG in Lettres Modernes at the university! (passed Latin with mention tres bien though, hem-hem, good old Tite-Live and Jules Cesar ).
I had lots of assistante friends marooned in places like Bagnoles and Vire though. Or, as one Irish guy called it, La Ferte bloody Mace!
where were you ?
I've heard Carteret is nice too Ellbell.

was doing an unpaid 6 month thing staying in a family who had descolariséd their children and were doing a home school. idid a bit of english and was there to improve my french, having emerged from university sort of fluent in german where i did my assistant yr and worse than i was post a level at french. village was stlaurent de condel near thury harcourt....was ok excpet the family didnt drink wine or coffee or eat meat ....which was i suppose ok what was less ok was the hunt for pissenlits to eat in the spring to purge the system?!

wow, they sound interesting
Know Thury Harcourt pretty well, we rented a gite in Clecy a couple of times in the 90s, I like the Suisse Normande, but it's quite isolated.
I did some baby-sitting for a family in Caen who were the polar opposite of yours I reckon. How they had any livers left I don't know, and I had my suspicions about swinging too, although they were very nice people to work for .

Ooh samanthar... we were near Briquebec two years ago.

Am LOLing at the two families you stayed with.... and am reminded of the Italian family I stayed with who didn't think it was appropriate for girls (this is aged 21-ish) to go out alone (... not after dark or anything... ever), and wouldn't let me and their daughter go to the beach with some friends in their car because 'there are bends in the road'.

LOLOLOL at "bends in the road". This was not Sicily then, clearly
My parents were stunned when my 6 footer French penpal came to stay aged 14. She had a Vegas showgirl's wardrobe and wore every tiny scrap of it, plus added body glitter, for all our improving outings to the British Museum etc. She was a terrifying sight