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The other day, my mother was giving her her bath, and she said something (in French) about the soap. Savon. And Ana quite seriously replied "No, it's soap!"
Mommy: Non, savon.
Ana: No! SOAP!
Mommy: Ana, non, c'est savon.
Ana: It's soap!
Mommy: Savon.
Ana: *sighs* Nanen. Dit soap.
She understands the French, but she wants to speak English. So my mother's really trying to only speak French to her, and not English. Once she's got that down, she plans on making the replying in French more important.
In other news of multilingual (kinda) adventures, I was sitting on the bus yesterday. And this kid and her mom(?) get on. Kid can't be more than seven, just reading. And the kid reads a sign across from us: LOOK! FOOD!
Mother: (clearly bored to tears) Yes, food. How do you spell that?
Kid: F-o-o-d
Mother: *still bored*
Connie: *flash of inspiration* And you know, you can spell that with your hands too! Look, f, o, o, d!
Kid was fascinated. Mother was grinning. Another kid came up to watch and surrepitiously follow along as I carefully spelled out everybody's names and completely exhausted my ASL vocabulary by teaching them "thank you". I'm lucky nobody had a name involving P or Q, 'cuz I kinda can't do those :)
And this kept everyone occupied through the entire bus ride. So I think I may do myself a favor and work on a little basic vocabulary building in that area. I have no delusions, I that this does not in any way comprise knowing the language, but if it can keep kids from making nuisances of themselves, I'm all for it.
Mommy: Non, savon.
Ana: No! SOAP!
Mommy: Ana, non, c'est savon.
Ana: It's soap!
Mommy: Savon.
Ana: *sighs* Nanen. Dit soap.
She understands the French, but she wants to speak English. So my mother's really trying to only speak French to her, and not English. Once she's got that down, she plans on making the replying in French more important.
In other news of multilingual (kinda) adventures, I was sitting on the bus yesterday. And this kid and her mom(?) get on. Kid can't be more than seven, just reading. And the kid reads a sign across from us: LOOK! FOOD!
Mother: (clearly bored to tears) Yes, food. How do you spell that?
Kid: F-o-o-d
Mother: *still bored*
Connie: *flash of inspiration* And you know, you can spell that with your hands too! Look, f, o, o, d!
Kid was fascinated. Mother was grinning. Another kid came up to watch and surrepitiously follow along as I carefully spelled out everybody's names and completely exhausted my ASL vocabulary by teaching them "thank you". I'm lucky nobody had a name involving P or Q, 'cuz I kinda can't do those :)
And this kept everyone occupied through the entire bus ride. So I think I may do myself a favor and work on a little basic vocabulary building in that area. I have no delusions, I that this does not in any way comprise knowing the language, but if it can keep kids from making nuisances of themselves, I'm all for it.
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Date: 2005-11-23 05:06 am (UTC)