Thus proclaimed my two-year-old, extremely stubborn daughter. We had been happily Spanish-ing...it makes her laugh when I speak in Spanish, but she's getting better about repeating when I ask her to, or identifying things I point to. She had gone through a series of body parts with funny pronunciations (like "oto," "naliz," "pay," "orefa" etc). Then I grabbed my shirt and said "camisa!" Without a moment's hesitation she furrowed her brow, glared at me and said "That's not a camisa, it's a SHIRT!"
I don't know why that one was less acceptable than the others she accepted.
Along the same lines, on the way home yesterday Ben asked if we could stop and get a movie from the Redbox...I said I didn't have anything to do, so we could watch a movie. I had been feeling sick, so he asked "What is it you like for that? Schnapps?"
I laughed really, really hard. He was thinking Schwepps ginger ale....but it was still hilarious to think of him buying alcohol for me...and especially at the moment. :-)
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Makes me wonder why you're feeling sick ;)
I always feel guilty when people ask if I teach my kids Spanish, because I don't. I'm lazy. But there is a school here that does Spanish immersion and I'm crossing my fingers that S-Boogie can get in for first grade next year. And I'm already praying that she'll be OK with switching schools and all that. I think she'll like learning Spanish though.
Little Dude is suddenly in love with Dora and I love listening to him repeat stuff along with it: "Abre!"
ooooh...oh so subtle. Whoop!!!!!
Schnapps! Hah! I'm still laughing out loud.
Is Ben teaching her any of that crazy Korean? Remember when Jorge would say crazy Hebrew sounds and stuff? I just know that somewhere, deep in her linguistic psyche, there are some beautiful allophones waiting to explode.
Wow, that could be a JC-ism! My friend Jack said his Puerto Rican girlfriend once told him he was "blind as a goat!" I love hearing about Bee-Boo's adventures in Spanish!
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