It's been fascinating to watch Jaan learn! The first few days he scared me a little, because he started a weird baby talk, and would hardly speak intelligibly at all. Then, all of a sudden, he started speaking English. It's still rough, but he can definitely communicate. Now there's a constant stream of "Dis vhat is?" and "Dat vhat do?" and "Vhere you go?" (or, more often, "Tyotya Leetra vhere go?"). And of course, there's always "Vhy?"
The funniest story, which I've been telling everyone, is from last week. Jaan was playing in the backyard, and Mom was hanging laundry out there. He yelled, "Baba. Come! Dis is vhat?" She went over and saw that his hands were covered in ants! Don't worry, he didn't get bitten.
"Go to the ant"
Originally uploaded by fylliska.
4 comments:
That's too funny about English and Russian. We teach our little girl to be bilingual (we speak more English of course since we live here) and though she can't speak any of the languages yet (she is only 14 months), she surely understands both of them. We read to her both English and Russian baby books. You just have to start a book and she knows exactly what book to bring to you. It's so exciting to see it. Ты случайно не знаешь, VeggieTales на русский переведены? У меня племянница в России. Очень хочу ей эти мультики подарить. :-)
Лена
Too cute!
So will Raia be learning English through this as well?
Да, Veggie Tales есть, но трудно найти. Мы оставили наши там. :-(
Marsha, I think it's up to her how much she'll learn right now. So far she doesn't want to. Jaan was like that when he was littler too, though. They seem to do best when we don't push them on languages.
Can anyone recommend some baby books in Russian and how a monolingual English speaker might find them? I have a friend who lives in the US but speaks Russian and would like to speak it to her baby so I thought it would be nice to give her some baby books in the language.
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