My son is nine years old, and he has some passive knowledge of Serbian, but he needs more practice to start speaking the language. He lives in an English-speaking household; his father doesn’t speak English, so the only person he can talk to in Serbian is me, which is insufficient to learn the language proficiently. Another disadvantage is that my son was diagnosed with childhood apraxia when he was two and needed speech therapy to learn how to speak English. Apraxia made it difficult for him to pronounce the Serbian sounds. We are delighted to have found Aleksandra Milisavljevic and her online school “Serbian Corner” to support our family’s goal to raise our son to be bilingual. His teacher, Vesna, has been working with him wonderfully, with a lot of patience, humor, and understanding of the difficulties in pronouncing different sounds of the Serbian language. What I like the most is how cooperative and inclusive Serbian Corner is in accepting and initiating parental input on the best teaching approaches. They listen to the parents regarding their children’s interests and learning experiences, which is important considering the cultural differences between Serbian and American school systems, for example. Mateja has been making a lot of progress, and, to my great delight, he started saying complete sentences in Serbian when working with Vesna. I know that with more time and additional reinforcement at home, he will converse with me in Serbian daily. That would be a dream come true, and I will be forever grateful to the American Corner, Aleksandra, and Vesna.
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