At 21 months, Noelle is working on increasing her vocabulary, and that includes learning words both in English and Spanish.
If you're a Spanish lover, here's a quick quiz for you: decipher the meaning behind Noelle's baby Spanish. Here we go, we'll start with some easy ones (answers listed below):
1. Noelle finishes her bottle, holds it toward me and says, "Más!"
2. Spotting a new toy across the room, she grabs my hand and announces, "Vamos!"
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Okay, that was an easy start, now on to some more challenging baby Spanish talk -
3. Noelle grabs her favorite doll, brings her over to me and says, "Oh, nena!"
4. Peering into the fridge, Noelle asks for one of her favorite snacks: "shesho"
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And extra credit goes to those who can decipher this last one -
5. Noelle spots a cockroach in our backyard (yes, we have them), points to it and says, "Chicho!"
Answers
1. más = more
2. vamos = let's go
3. nena = little girl
4. shesho = baby talk for queso, or "cheese"
5. chicho = baby talk for bicho which means "bug"
2 comments:
Thanks for this interesting presentation of your life. I also had bilingual children during the early part of their life when we were in Bulgaria. I also being there. We pray for the people.
Now I have the chance to teach ESL to people of all languages. But my Spanish is the best so your quiz was pretty easy until the "chicho" not cucaracha
Vaya con Dios. En Cristo, "Esperanza"
Thanks for the comment and your work teaching ESL sounds very interesting.
Bulgaria sounds interesting too, what an experience!
Thanks again for your note y que Dios les bendiga mucho,
En el,
Rachel
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