Random thought

[peterclo]

Hearing adults speak English seems perfectly normal to me, after all they're probably Eglish. Or American. Or something.

Hearing kids speak English on the other hand, that seems like a small miracle to me. Maybe it's because I remember my first experience of hearing English kids somewhere in the South of England when I was 13. I was really shocked.

Comments

[kakskiv]

I know exactly what you mean! ;D

I'm also equally flabbergasted everytime I hear a kid switch from norwegian to perfect english or german or french or, well, any other language. I always wanted to have kids with a foreign person so my kids could be bilingual, damn!

[peterclo]

It's unnatural, those kids are out to get us. You know it.

[mooflyfoof]

Strange! I can see how that would happen though. It always seems kind of odd to me when kids speak languages other than English or Spanish. Hearing the little kid inflections and speech impediments play out in an unfamiliar language is so weird!

[peterclo]

Kids are weird :D

[joifulgurl]

hahaha really? well you would be AMAZED at one of the kids i babysit for - he started talking (in english! haha) at 8 months old. it's the strangest to see a kid who can't even walk yet, talking.

i love when little kids speak more than one language. they're so endearing.

[peterclo]

Yeah, the best I've seen was last year in the train back from England, a mother was talking to her daughter in English and she was answering in French (or the other way around, not sure). Cutest thing ever.

My nephew was able to tell the names of about ten differents birds at 1.5 year old :D Also he knows the names of a few different fossiles and knows that a snail is a gastropod :D