I’m blessed because Klara is a very good-natured baby. I can take her to lunch with the ladies, a Japanese restaurant, campus, AT&T store, and she stays calm, doesn’t cry, and looks at everything seriously and curiously. When she is hungry, she quietly points to her mouth in a very dignified way. When she is sleepy, she makes squirrel fists. She only ever cries if she absolutely has to.
She also finds it hilarious when I pronounce “baby” as “beeey-beee.” She collapses with laughter. And when she saw me speak Spanish on campus last week, she found that fascinating. Watching me speak to people is one of her favorite pastimes.
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You can take Klara out to lunch with a Japanese restaurant??
Could you get away with a grammatical construction like that in your Spanish 101 class? 🙂
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I’m permanently persecuted by picky purists. 😉😎
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On the other hand, your alliteration is improving.
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That’s so amazing that she recognizes correctly-pronounced words well enough to know that your exaggerated pronunciation is exaggerated.
What language(s) are you teaching her?
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I speak English to her. But her father speaks Russian to her. She reacts to English best of all. Everything else is just noise. 🙂
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Who’s teaching her English grammar? 🙂
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“She reacts to English best of all. Everything else is just noise.”
She can probably tell already that English is the dominant local language. Babies are so smart and observant!
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I think there is some sort of classic child development study that involves the age at which children recognize foreign languages as being both foreign and a language. There’s a fun book that I’ve given to my fellow science nerds called “Experimenting with Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid” that features this test (and I promise none of the experiments are traumatic – the target audience appreciates the humor of the somewhat sinister sounding title).
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