Wednesday, May 14, 2008

5/14 English breakthrough

Jen reached a milestone recently regarding the use of English.

She now talks to her stuffed animals in English. It is cute to watch.

She is also beginning to read use the "Clifford the Big Red Dog" phonics book series. It took about 4 months for her to be exposed to enough English before the desire to read kicked in. She is trying very hard and doing very well. She is progressing with her spoken English as well. She is learning personal pronouns now and that is a challenge. She understands quite a bit and we can use mostly English for everything except for complicated issues.

Finally, she spoke to her little friend Audrey Hai Ping using a webcam and that was a great experience. I knew these things existed but never knew how easy and how fun they are to use. And there are free services you can use once you buy the webcam. We are looking forward to using it again in the days ahead.

Her personality is very sunny these days and she is making progress with some emotional issues that she struggle with. That has been very encouraging.

We rejoice that her friend Hai Ping has met her family. She is a sweet child and is blessed to have a wonderful family.

We keep the other boys and girls from Zhuhai in our thoughts and prayers.

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