Good news in local bilingualism

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So apparently Arthur has overcome his longstanding hatred of the French language. For those of you who don't know, he was in a French-only daycare for a year in 2007-08 and picked up nothing, although he did learn to count to four in Spanish from Handy Manny. So today, after finishing playing with his new Nintendo 3DS (for which many thanks go out to various relations who sent him birthday money), he was looking at the various pamphlets and flyers telling him about all the accessories he could buy, and remarked, "The French for 'Wii Kid Friendly Remote' is 'Télécommande Playchuk Mini'. I bet you didn't know I knew that in French". I then noted that it said below that, "Available in pink and green / Disponible dedans rose et vert," and I showed him how rose and vert meant 'pink' and 'green'. We then worked through the rest of the French colours using the colours on his Spiderman pajamas. Then we moved on to brushing his teeth, since it was bedtime.

Me: "See, your toothpaste is sort of vert and sort of bleu."
Arthur: "It's vert-bleu."
Me: "Yeah, you could say that."
Arthur: "What's the French word for 'ish'?"
Me: "... well, I guess 'esque'."
Arthur: Esc! Like on the keyboard!
Me: [breaks out laughing]
Arthur: It's vert-esc-bleu.

So that's coming along.