Well, the summer in England has been most beneficial in terms of Clément's cultural and linguistic immersion into all things British. Very much helped by the Masbro Children's Centre, the Hammersmith&Fulham public libraries and the Olympics in London. Starting off with a sort of a sign language and slowly but surely moving onto constructing full sentences and conducting conversations, such as "In my life, I have a dream... A rally car!" and "You are the best friend I've ever had."
The new academic year has started off nicely with a welcome from the Russian School in Strasbourg which he now attends regularly. Shame that he cannot put his newly acquired skills to good use in Belarus. Who knows when his next trip to the East will be.
The teachers at his French nursery school are now complaining that he counts to 10 in English better than in French. Obviously, they wouldn't be able to asses his mathematical abilities in Russian as well.
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