So the prediction was: "the child will probably not speak till its 3 years old" considering the languages its simultaneously bombarded with. I mean, what would you say if the answer to your simple question "what is this?" would look something like: darling -this is a car; hayir - bu araba; ne beba - to je auto; Mausi, nein - das ist ein Fahrzeug! ...Get it?!
Though, it may seem something like "words don't come easy to me" since I last posted on my blog, a year and a half now and I seem to can not stop talking. My vocabulary increased dramatically (using a Croatian dictionary mainly and spicing it up with some Turkish). I can ask "what is that?", I can say that my dad is working, and I can even order my mom to clean! But don't be surprised if I sometimes look surprisedly at my baba talking to me. Then I usually give my mom a look: "could you be so kind and translate that for me?"
Its incredible what grownups put kids through - I'm suppose to capiche, talk, and keep up with 3 languages?!Not to mention that there's a 4th language that they're, so far, keeping mercifully away from me, all the rules coming every minute: do this, don't do this, that's not nice, why did you do this....eat your greens, drink your milk, brush your teeth, don't scream, watch out, be careful...and the list never ends!!! Jeez, talking about the stress! I don't know, the way it started, I might move when I'm 2.
Enough about nagging! Let's play a little bit...
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