Speaking in tongues

My sweet little angel speaks in tongues. 

Thank you Noggin channel, for teaching my daughter several key Spanish and now also Chinese phrases.  You have no idea how weird it is to be driving down the road and have your kid start spouting off phrases which initially sound like gibberish, but then you have a dawning realization that she REALLY is saying words in another language.  (Yes, this is quite telling that my ability to learn/interpret other languages is so limited that I cannot even easily recognize Dora-speak.)   K speaking in tongues causes a certain amount of both pride (wow, my kid is such a a genious!) and parental angst (wow, my kid watches waaaay too much TV).  I haven’t decided which is winning yet.

And then yesterday, she is camped out in the playroom with her box of 9 million miniature dinosaurs (and dinosaur accessories such as rocks, trees etc) and she is doing her roleplay squeaky voice thing.  All of a sudden, it sounds like she is speaking chinese.   I mean that quite literally.  I listened closer, and sure enough, she was using phrases learned from Ni Hao, Kai-lan.   Thanks again Noggin, for proving yet again that my child is an unfiltered sponge.  I’m pretty sure if they institute some kind of brainwashing world-domination scheme, there will be no hope for the rest of the world.  Clearly, they have all that figured out.