One of the biggest changes kindergarden hath wrought to our L2 situation is that there is now very little time now for German audiobooks and videos.
Prior to kindergarden, J was listening to an average of 12.4 minutes of German audiobooks per day and watching an average of 19 minutes of German videos per day. After nineteen days of kindergarden, those averages are now 1.6 minutes audio and 4.6 minutes video per day (hardly meaningful as averages, since he's only watched one video and listened twice to audiobooks).
That difference is, well, inevitably going to make a big difference.
We haven't had time the last two Sundays, but I'm hoping to get at least one extended bout of audiobook listening in per week during our literary-critical Sunday school. Hopefully I can manage at least 45-60 minutes per week of audio (more important than video, in my opinion), for an average of 7-8 minutes per week.
On the plus side, I'm hoping the new practice of dedicated time for L2 description-narration will also help keep J's German chops together and progressing apace.
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