Isibel has never taught a language before, so she's making this up, but she adopts a general strategy of talking to him idly, as though he's a toddler who may understand simple utterances but nothing conceptually difficult, using mostly words she has taught him and - after uttering a sentence with new words - finding ways to go back and teach him those, then repeating her sentence and carrying on. She doesn't ask him questions - of course - but there are gaps when she's making new, increasingly busy little doodles during which he could interject if he so chose.
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Date: 2013-04-09 10:26 pm (UTC)