Mini Alex update.

[rivka]

Alex is doing so many new things every day! I want to note some of them down so I don't forget them.

New words: baby, clothes, outside, nose, eye, toes, knee (only applied when viewed through ripped jeans, for some reason), light, kids, read, rocket, Pa (replaces "Daddy" to refer to her Papa), stars, blocks, bread, cake (mostly applied to rice cakes, also appears when playing pat-a-cake), clues (refers to the TV show "Blue's Clues," which she now asks for by name. I am a bad mother.), hello, that, mail.

New book she asks for by name: Fox in Socks. ("Socks Socks!")

Four new tricks:
(1) Holding my cell phone up to her ear and saying "'Lo!"
(2) Holding a tissue or napkin up to her face and making a blowing noise, as if blowing her nose.
(3) Playing along with "Two Little Monkeys" by tapping her head and shaking a lecturing finger at more-or-less the appropriate moments.
(4) Waving and saying "Bye!" for endings: finishing books, walking away from a cage at the zoo, leaving her toothbrush behind in the bathroom, having her star light turned off at night.

Comments

[perceval.livejournal.com]

That may be the result of poor teaching, though, rather than an inherent weakness of getting an education in a foreign language. I think it's poor teaching, actually. If you have a teacher who emphasises structure and teaches English like a "foreign language", you'd get completely different results.