Comments on: Watch Your Language

By: Venus

Venus — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:30:35 +0000

I had fully intended to speak French to our little guy, but I, like you, am a poor tennis player. Our nanny is not exotic, so not help there. However, hubs and I do count 1-5 to him in 5 languages (English, Spanish, French, Italian, German). He hasn’t said any of those numbers yet (in any language, he only just turned a year old) but I’m hoping just hearing the other sounds will help. We’re also considering doing a Rosetta Stone tutorial in Italian (we took real classes ages ago and have lost almost all of it) so that we can start throwing that around like we’re in Firenze.

By: Marissa

Marissa — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 23:32:11 +0000

my oldest (now 3 1/2) would wedge herself in between the couches and then complain “I Suck! help!” as for forign languages she is in love with kai lan and seems to be picking up the little Japanese words phrases and numbers. I want to teach then some of the languages ive picked up on (spanish turkish sign language) but her little 3 year old attention span is unwilling to cooperate. lol. my 2nd is still working on mamama babababa tikklll (tickle) and my 3rd is working on lifting his head. lol. Hopefully i can teach them a few things with other languages eventually.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:15:40 +0000

We speak fragments of different languages we’ve picked up. Thanks to my educational experience and Dora and Diego, there’s some Spanish spoken in our house. Usually it’s “Vamonos!” Our youngest for whatever reason would never respond as if I was serious with a command unless I gave it in Spanish during those defiant toddler years. I don’t even know how I discovered that trick. Probably like most parenting tactics – desperation.