Spanglish: 2yrs, 3mos
As she gets more and more confident in both languages, she gets more confident at mixing them. One phrase: yo tengo hungry.
MoreBilingual Baby
Raising a child in non-native Spanish
Colors & Conversations: 2yrs,2mo
Conversation with Jojo has evolved from secret babble between mother and baby. Now anyone could listen in and get the gist. Follow along with our conversation from this morning.
MoreGrammar: 2yrs, 2mos
Some of what she says is only correct because she’s imitating phrases she hears all the time; but some of it is being passed through internalized language rules and, incredibly, coming out correctly.
MorePersistence: Take my hand
I didn’t understand her and I was willing to let it go…but she wasn’t. She was going to make me understand.
MoreAbstract Concepts
I knew she understood the relationship between going pee-pee in the potty and receiving a sticker, but I didn’t know she could verbalize it.
MoreBasics: Counting & Colors – 24 months
I’ll check in on basics again in a few months and see what kind of progress she has made. We don’t drill these things, we keep it fun and playful. Counting & Numbers: When she has an item in her hand she can pick up another one and say “dos.” When she’s counting rubber ducks […]
MoreStringing Words Together
She is continuing to put her words together to form phrases and sentences so that she can make more complex observations (because she has a lot to comment on). Yesterday, for example, I got out of the car and asked Lyon to carry my backpack so I could carry Bilingual Baby into the house. When […]
MoreGrammar & Word Roll: 24 Months
It’s fascinating to me to watch Josephine adding on the intricate layers of grammar that really make it all work. Possessives: Sometimes she mixes the way possives work in Spanish and English. In Spanish, for example, to say that those shoes belong to Dad, you would say those are “los zapatos de Dada (the shoes […]
MoreWord Roll & More
Wrapping up June, her 23rd month on the planet, I want to focus on the nuanced progress she’s made. She’s adding transition words, articles and turning long-held baby words into real words that can be found in a Spanish dictionary. Here’s a recap: Numbers: She can count to 10 in both English and Spanish. However, […]
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