I like your insight on this one and I agree. I teach a lot of Immersion students. While I try to stay with the target language (usually Spanish), sometimes it's much easier to spend a couple of minutes explaining a grammar point in English than trying to completely teach it in Spanish. Most of my students are native English speakers and it's important to be able to make connections from new learning with something you already know well. Using your native language can be the perfect tool. However, after saying all of that, I do agree 100% that it is important not to get stuck in the translate everything all the time mode. A new learner is pretty much in that mode most of the time at the beginning, so it is important to begin to think more and more in the target language. Great story! I'll be looking for more!