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The Earful Tower: Paris

How we're raising a trilingual child in Paris

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Lina and I discuss how circumstance has led to us raising our nearly three-year-old son in French, Swedish, and English. 

This episode was brought to you by Cook'n With Class, click here to book a class with them. I did the sauce-making class and LOVED it.

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0:00.0

Hello everybody out there. My name is Oliver G. This is the Earful Tower and at the start of the year

0:07.4

we put together our bucket lists and one of the things that I said I wanted to do was a French

0:13.1

cooking class and believe it or not out of the clear blue sky I got an email from cooking with

0:19.8

class on the other side of Montmartre.

0:22.6

And they said, Oliver, we hear you want to do some cooking. Come along and try our sauce making

0:29.3

class. And I said, that sounds like a wonderful idea. So I went along. I made seven French sauces, mayonnaise, biannays,

0:40.6

Hollandais, that kind of stuff. And I honestly, I really, really enjoyed the whole thing.

0:46.5

A four-hour class, I loved it. It was exactly what I was looking for. So after the class,

0:51.4

I said to the guys at cooking with class, I said, you know, this was a really

0:56.3

great experience. I think this is the kind of thing that Earful Tower listeners might just like.

1:03.0

So what you're going to hear this whole month is me giving a shout out to Cookin' With Class.

1:07.7

I hope a handful of you go and take their classes because I said to them it's a free

1:13.8

sponsorship if no one signs up. So the ball is in your court, earful tower listeners. Go and check this out.

1:20.8

There's a link in the show notes below. Cookin with class. I recommend the source making class.

1:27.2

More info in the show notes below. Check them out

1:30.1

because I said you would. Now let's get on with the episode. Hello everyone. We're doing a topic

1:36.1

today that comes with, I think, a little chat at the beginning, quickly just saying we're going to

1:41.4

be talking about raising our two and a half year old son trilingual.

1:46.7

Yeah.

1:47.5

But it comes with this caveat that we're not like, it's by circumstance.

1:55.0

Oh yeah. It's not like we're being very ambitious parents here.

1:58.3

No.

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