parenting stories – Etymology Adventures

My Chinese isn’t good enough

Hi. Sorry it’s been a while – I now have a 4.5 year old and a 2 year old. We are still doing the bilingual thing and reading lots of Chinese books. In the last 6 months or so, the experience of reading these books has changed for me. As the complexity of the booksContinue reading “My Chinese isn’t good enough”

Bus, no bus!

I was right about the language explosion. Ro is 19 months old and we are hitting that phase where more and more sounds are becoming available to him and he is starting to repeat words that we say. He is also starting to put together subject-verb phrases like 妈妈抱！(Pick me up, mama!) and 妈妈拜！(Bye mama!).Continue reading “Bus, no bus!”