I grew up in Addison, IL. Addison had a large population of Germans, so many Germans, there was a Kinderschule. Every week in addition to regular school from first through sixth grade, I attended Kinderschule. I was pretty fluent by the time we moved away. I didn't have the opportunity to practice my German for a few years, until I was able to take high school German. Some of it came back, but once I finished high school, I never got to use it again (and that's been a VERY long time - 36 years). Now that I am trying to go back to at least read German, hopefully all those years of German instruction will once again come back to me!
I've been focusing on my German ancestors (I have many 8 of my great-great grandparents are of German descent - the remaining 8 are split between the British Isles and Norway). I faced my first major challenge while searching my German lines this weekend - most of the sites I am finding are written in German. Now I wish I kept up on my German :(. If there is a will, there's a way! I did a search on how to translate website text. One of the links was for an add-on to Firefox. As I have exclusively been using Firefox for the past couple of years, I downloaded the gtranslate add-on and tested it. It works wonderfully. You highlight the area to be translated, right click and you get a pop-up with the text translated. Being able to read German would be easier, but while I'm working on re-learning German, this will have to do.
I grew up in Addison, IL. Addison had a large population of Germans, so many Germans, there was a Kinderschule. Every week in addition to regular school from first through sixth grade, I attended Kinderschule. I was pretty fluent by the time we moved away. I didn't have the opportunity to practice my German for a few years, until I was able to take high school German. Some of it came back, but once I finished high school, I never got to use it again (and that's been a VERY long time - 36 years). Now that I am trying to go back to at least read German, hopefully all those years of German instruction will once again come back to me!
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