Funny Gavin story #1
We don't have cable, and the one channel we get (CBC) is extremely fuzzy even with the antenna, so Gavin has never watched TV at our house. He does, however, get to rent a movie from time to time, and the last couple of movies he's chosen have been Dora the Explorer or Diego movies. If you aren't up-to-date with the latest preschool shows, Dora goes on little adventures every episode where she has to find something or help someone and during the show they always use a few Spanish words.
Over the last week or two, and particularly while we were in Florida, Gavin would be telling us a story and say something like "and the boy was very ixpay - do you know what ixpay means?" and of course proceed to tell us exactly what it meant. The first few times we kept trying to figure out what word he was trying to say, but eventually came to the conclusion he was just making things up. Which seemed very strange...until we realized that he was just copying the Dora shows! When they use the Spanish words for things, to him it must seem like they're just making up random words for things!
Now that we understand where it's coming from, it's pretty funny! Today he explained to me that 'limpit' meant when something was very messy and dirty. "So," he says, "my room is very messy and limpit today." :) (Which is true, by the way.)
Anybody have any good ideas on how to explain the concept of languages to a four year-old???
Over the last week or two, and particularly while we were in Florida, Gavin would be telling us a story and say something like "and the boy was very ixpay - do you know what ixpay means?" and of course proceed to tell us exactly what it meant. The first few times we kept trying to figure out what word he was trying to say, but eventually came to the conclusion he was just making things up. Which seemed very strange...until we realized that he was just copying the Dora shows! When they use the Spanish words for things, to him it must seem like they're just making up random words for things!
Now that we understand where it's coming from, it's pretty funny! Today he explained to me that 'limpit' meant when something was very messy and dirty. "So," he says, "my room is very messy and limpit today." :) (Which is true, by the way.)
Anybody have any good ideas on how to explain the concept of languages to a four year-old???
brought to you by Greg and Farrell Clark at 10:29 PM
1 Comments:
This story is too funny. Gavin is really showing his intelligence when he begins to make up words like these. I found that if you talk about one or two words like hello or love and then give the different language versions of those words that will help to make sense of the worlds languages. Now to learn how to pronounce those other languages??
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