You put it perfectly! I feel like the only one who seems to be making an effort to teach my 6 year old step-son French, even though I am the only one who DOESN'T speak any! Grandma does her best to make sure she exposes little Q to as much of it as possible. But at home? Forget it. Daddy grew up back and forth between France and the US, so he's completely fluent, but is pretty impatient when it comes to teaching. I want to learn but it's not something you can teach yourself out of a book! Thank god for Dora the Explorer, who apparently teaches French kids English, as well as American kids to speak Spanish. Our biggest hurdle is Daddy's ex-wife, who is not only unhelpful, but discourages little Q from learning any French. I try to give the benefit of the doubt, but it’s hard when he comes home and asks me "Why doesn't Mommy like France??" The best thing we've come up with so far is to make little games out of the words we know, and make Daddy teach us new ones to work on. On walks, we pick some repetitive landmark, (trees, telephone poles, mailboxes, ect) and each time we pass a tree, Q "teaches" me a different French word. It's not the most efficient way to go about it, but he doesn't feel like it’s a chore, which is a huge probelm since he started getting the idea that speaking French isn't any fun.