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062 - Dreaming In Tetris (Averted Thought)

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🗓️ 16 July 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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0:00.0

Do you sound stressed out? You doing okay?

0:09.7

I'm doing fine. I'm leaving the country tomorrow, taking the kids to immersion Spanish

0:16.8

school. It's kind of a big deal. We've been talking about doing this for years and we

0:26.2

are finally doing it. It's a week in a little bit of town, inland in the middle of Costa

0:32.5

Rica, I think. I don't know. My wife has done all the planning, but we're going to an

0:38.3

immersion school. That's what we're doing.

0:41.3

I'm not a good friend. You've brought that up twice and in my brain I just put that in

0:45.8

the smarter everyday jungle frog video. I don't know. I just lumped it in somewhere, but

0:52.9

that's right. You did mention that you were talking about doing this. You're actually pulling

0:55.8

the trigger. Yeah. You're going to go teach the kids Spanish. How much are they supposed

0:59.5

to be able to pick up and something like that in a week? I don't know. We've had them

1:03.1

in classes here. I kind of poked in today just to see what they were doing and they were

1:10.3

rattling through the colors and numbers and all that kind of stuff. They were doing it

1:14.4

in context with rhymes. They were rhyming things in Spanish, which was interesting.

1:20.6

That works.

1:22.6

Does it? Absolutely. You think about all the little rhythms and rhymes that you remember

1:28.2

like an old song from childhood that you haven't heard in 20 years comes on and there's

1:33.1

just enough of a prompting there to get you to the next rhyme and then you realize you

1:36.6

know the whole thing. That works.

1:38.6

Yeah. We're excited about it. We're hoping that it lays a good foundation and then we'll

1:43.5

double tap that. The idea is we go down and we teach them the importance of having that

1:48.4

extra language by seeing an entire society that only operates in that operating system.

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