Our Trilingual Two-year Old
By Paul Vernon on Sep 15, 2009 in Abigail
We’ve told many of you how great Abi’s language skills are in the 3+ languages that she is surrounded with. Her English and Akha are by far her strongest languages - and her Thai is not far behind. She also has about a dozen other words from other languages that she has picked up in her travels - Chinese, Burmese, and German (Prost!).
For a while now, we’ve been trying to capture on film her nightly ritual of counting to ten in her three natural languages: English, Akha and Thai. Unfortunately, our video camera has terrible audio - so we finally got her playing with the microphone @ Dad’s computer. So, for those of you interested in seeing a two-year old counting to ten in three languages, check out the video below!
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That was SOOOOO cute!!! She is so smart! We miss you and love you all!
I love it!
She’ll grow up so smart!
Wow! I am super impressed! We are moving to Poland and our Emma will be 2 1/2. I am so looking forward to seeing her learn/absorb the language!
@Alexis - you’ll be amazed at how quickly she learns culture & language. She’ll pass you guys up quickly.
Paul and Lori/she is just precious and I loved hearing her count to 10! I love her/thanks for sharing.