Do U Urdu?

Originally posted to another blog July 21, 2008
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It's a great era in which to unschool. The "interwebs" has made it sickeningly easy to have access to a vast amount of information and exposure to other cultures from the comfort of our living rooms.

Sebleebler, a huge fan of Tom & Jerry, wanted to find recent episodes on YouTube. Tom & Jerry are not known their loquaciousness, but one episode we watched did have quite a bit of dialogue... in Urdu, no less. And Sebleebler was eagerly watching it and giggling as usual. In fact, he watched the Urdu-dubbed ones several times in a row.

We've also learned a little bit of German through his interest in fire & rescue. I still have trouble pronouncing "Feuerwehr", but if we're ever in the EU and have an emergency, we'll know to dial 112 instead of 911.

Being exposed to different languages and cultures while following the interests of a 3-year-old? Priceless.

Now, if we could only teleport ourselves (or "jaunt" as Alfred Bester calls it in "The Stars My Destination") to anywhere in the world any time we'd like...