Anecdata for future parents of bilingual kids: I have been really, really shocked at how much English Lillian and Liam picked up in the last 6 weeks, and it is either due to an extra 45 minutes or so with me (working from home) or, intriguingly, a *lot* of My Little Pony.
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Realized earlier today that Lillian probably has deeper active vocabulary on concrete verbs (e.g. “sweep”, “crumple”, “swim” as opposed to “differentiate”) in English than I do in Japanese and that is thing that had to have happened in very, very recent past.
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(Those are always the really annoying words to not know, because it’s enormously frustrating to be mostly literate and forget for the 1,738th time how to say “[Dice] an onion” and have to resort to “Could you chop it into cu... cu... *sigh* three dimensional squares.”)
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This conversation has happened multiple times. One branch down the tree: Ruriko: You mean ‘cube.’ Just like English. Me: No, that’s cheating. Ruriko: It’s a perfectly understandable loanword. Me: Yes but if I were a native speaker I would definitely use the (Japanese) math one.
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Congratulations on reaching that stage of parenthood where you know the names of all the little ponies.
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This is impressive. Did you say she is 6?
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Princess Celestial is hired.
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TV totally helps.
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