Luisa, Sara, and I were in the pool at my sister Sara's house in Massachusetts, and we'd all been chattering away in English for a while (which does not go without saying in my daughters' cases, as they both are quite happy to talk German to me when I talk English to them), and Sara suddenly said:
"Ich alles English say."
Hysterical laughter on her father and her sister's parts!
"Ich alles English say."
Hysterical laughter on her father and her sister's parts!
Intriguing... why is your daughter so wedded to German? Does the rest of the family speak it? Nice to have such an unusual post.
ReplyDeleteDave, my wife is German, plus we live in Basel, Switzerland, so my kids are trilingual: English, High German, and Basel German.
ReplyDeleteAnd it's normal for natively bilingual children to mix them together for a while, and also to expect their parents to speak different languages to them, if that's what the parents have chosen to do!
ReplyDeleteSo are you generally pleased with the
ReplyDeletelanguage results of Sara & Luisa's
'English immersion' vacation?
-- dhsh
your daughter would have laughed if she'd heard my efforts in austria when i finally got to 'speak' german to german speakers. brilliant fun tho
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