As she becomes more vocal, we are talking a great deal about the languages she will speak. We came on this about Bilingual and Multilingual Children. Seems like good sense. If she speaks English and Thai as parental tongues and goes to a French school. We would not be unhappy! Over ambitious father would quite like her to have either Chinese or Japanese! Many people here speak three and four languages. Thai and Lao, Khmer, or Kammuang-the languages of the North, SW and East of Thailand as well as a more local dialect. Many in Bangkok and the central areas of Ayutthaya and Suphanburi, as well as Phuket speak Thai and a Chinese language-usually Teochew or Hokkien. Indeed possibly more people speak a language other than standard Thai as their first language. In all there may be over EIGHTY languages spoken here! See Ethnologue report for Thailand So four does not seem so many! Rhodri is miffed that we did not enable him to speak French as a native tongue, though speak he can, as can I. And of course we have the doubtful skill of reading Latin! But my mother spoke French with me. And she had some Italian too. I have yet to hear an authoritative view on how well RS spoke Welsh. What I do hear suggests he spoke it too correctly. He used to moan that he could not speak pure Welsh in the grocer in Pwllheli as they just laughed. And however well educated were the population of Lleyn they must have found his conversation a little hard going. The hard task will be to find the school. I dont think we want to go the Westminster route again. So this adds all the more piquancy to our game of choose the French town! We read this top to bottom. Aix en Provence would be OK-a bit too urban I suspect. Otherwise the front runners were Vannes and Nantes (bit too damp), Montpellier and Valence (except Valence has a nuclear power station!), Gap and Chamonix (bit out of the way no TGV or airport) so now we are onto smaller places: Annonay (Ardèche / Rhône-Alpes) and Romans Sur Isere (Drome/Rhone Alpes) this week!
I have asked some of you already the question-if you did not live where you do where would you live. Been asking it all my life really and no sign of stopping. You could not prise Rhodri away from London except, maybe, to NY.