I am absolutely amazed as my two sponges absorb bits and pieces of their new language and string the various results into interesting, often nonsensical, phrases.
Perhaps it stands out all the more because I don’t see my girls for the first 2/3 of the day. I leave in the morning and come home in the afternoon and – poof – they’ve got new sentences. The other day I walk in the house and Kelly burns around the corner to give me a big hug. I put her down and she does this big shrug and says, clear as any natural American, “I don’t know!” When did that happen?
They like to run their tongues with gibberish that they think is English. They listen to Ren and I conversing and then immitate the tone.
“Ya gago de issu, yea e and A a I dunno Amen”
The most repetitive thing we say with them is the Lord’s prayer so a good number of these gibberish sentences begin with “our Father”.
The cool thing is some of these gibberish sentences solidify over the week. More and more real word appear with pretty decent verb tenses. They recognize the words we use with them often (this evening Kelly said “tienes mucho lice!”).
It’s fascinating.
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