I think that Clara is finally starting to understand the difference between English and German. I'm starting to notice that in the cases where she knows a word in both languages she generally uses the English word with me. I'm trying to make it into a little game, so that when she says, for example, "handschuhe" I say "Mommy says handschuhe, daddy says?" and she answers "Gloves!"
She continues to love reading books; one of these days I hope to get a video of her reading one of her books where she says two full long sentences with only "Der" as a prompt. For now, here are a few speaking/counting videos I took tonight right before bed.
"Buddy" is a dog that Clara met in Canada, and clearly still has fond memories of!
4 comments:
Well done Clara. She is truly bilingual!! Anna Marie
Those are fantastic!
(Also, Chris, I've never met you, but you sound like you have a German accent!)
Hmmmm, at first I was flattered, but then I realized, "hey, I was speaking English in those clips!" Well, I (mostly) lose my Canadian accent when I'm in the US, so maybe my accent is drifting here? I kind of hope not...
We love this blog! I especially like Clara's counting. My niece did something similar, but only in one language (even though she spoke bits of English and Spanish at that age): One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Nine, Fourteen, Twelve, Fourteen ... It's great to hear Clara talk.
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