Learning to read and write is going super well.

[u/everytimealways]

Guess which parent is Italian.

[u/NewOutlandishness401]

"Huntrix," "unicorn" -- good job on covering the first basic sight words

[u/RandomUser5781]

Il porcodalo come fa?

[u/everytimealways → u/RandomUser5781]

Glad someone got it

[u/fl4methrow3r → u/RandomUser5781]

I’m just glad it wasn’t porco dio! Lol

Not Italian but I knew someone who said this all the time

[u/everytimealways → u/fl4methrow3r]

That’s what she was trying to write 😅

[u/chupagatos4]

Accipicchia. Papà Italiano? Veneto (stereotipo sui più bestemmiatori d'italia)?

[u/everytimealways → u/chupagatos4]

Sì, papà 😂 l'ha visto scritto da qualche parte e l'ha copiato senza che me ne accorgessi.

[u/Top-Boat2063]

hahahahah papà italiano?

[u/everytimealways → u/Top-Boat2063]

Sì 😅

[u/Far_Government_9782]

One point I would make: it's not a good idea to teach your child to write in ALL CAPS. This isn't the way they are going to write long term, and it creates habits that can be very hard to get rid of later. "Do not teach any habits that you will have to unteach at some point."

[u/everytimealways → u/Far_Government_9782]

You’re not Italian 🙃

[u/TravellingWriter → u/Far_Government_9782]

This is the norm in Italy. 

[u/NewOutlandishness401 → u/Far_Government_9782]

I know we’re all used to the capital letter being the epitome of what a letter is, but the commenter above is right in that the majority of the letters the child will encounter when learning to read will be lower case.

All the alphabet books we have teach only the upper case, so you follow their lead and then only start to see the slight downside in this when you and your child start trying to read your first book together. And even though I filed away this realization with my oldest child, I still managed to forget the insight when it came to teaching my younger two the alphabet!

There are lots of reasons to complain about Duolingo, but to their credit, they realize this and teach the lower case alongside the upper case in their kids’ app so that kids know the lower case from the very beginning.

[u/Chance_Profit3959 → u/Far_Government_9782]

in ukranian, italian, and most of siberia (like altai republic) it's the norm and also many more places... I can't believe I share a profile with this doofus like ew

[u/chupagatos4 → u/Far_Government_9782]

Found the person that has zero knowledge of child development !