This past Sunday, Tesla participated in a Japanese speech contest where she spoke about things she likes all in Japanese. She practiced over a month every day, repeating until she was comfortable. We are so proud of her.
She wrote her speech in English, then her teacher put it into Japanese. There were some new words for her. When she did the whole speech for the Regenbogens and Jessica, and they wanted to know what she said, so she interpreted it into English. I was so happy to see her thinking of her speech in Japanese, then sentence by sentence repeating it in English, so I know she really understood what she was saying. I feel very lucky that Tesla is at Rosa Parks Elementary, being taught Japanese everyday. While not immersion, I could't have asked for better where Tesla really seems to enjoy and connect with Japanese : )
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