Some of you have heard this story already, because I tell everyone that will listen, but for those of you that haven't heard it, here goes.....my child is bilingual. She speaks Spanish...and is pretty
fluent in it.
To my surprise. When she went for her 15 month
appt, back in September, I had talked to the Dr. about her losing her words...I was a little worried...and he told me not to worry until she turned 2. That seemed a bit long for me, but after asking around and researching, I was going to go with it. He tells me "I don't
think she is autistic, she interacts with you and has normal reactions to me, so I don't think that she is autistic. We may need to test her hearing if she hasn't gotten any more words by her next
appt." Okay, so you can imagine my shock and dismay after that
appt. Anyway, I will make a long story short
er....jump ahead 2 months, to now, and I was telling her sitter that she would no longer be coming to daycare....
yadda,
yadda... and Emilia says something and Magda say "
si," and some other words that I couldn't understand because they were in
Spanish...and I looked at her and asked if Emilia had said
something in Spanish and lo and behold....I found out my child speaks Spanish. All this time that I had thought she was
jibbering, she was actually
jibbering and speaking to me in Spanish. Let me preface, I AM NOT BILINGUAL! I found out that she 4-5 phrases that she speaks
fluently, and can count to three and knows her sitters name and her name. Good for her, but since Spanish isn't spoken in our house, I would very much like for her first language to be English. English, please! So, I say I don't know whether to be proud or pissed off...I think I am a little of both. However, Emilia's English words are starting to flourish, so that is good. Her new favorite word is "bubbles." It's too cute.
2 comments:
that is awesome! my child only knows english mixed with hick. :)
Muy bien!
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