Saturday, March 17, 2007

Are You Speaking Spanish?

Two weeks ago, we were sitting in our church pew. E has a friend around the same age as her and they are inseperable. The friend and her family were sitting in front of us. Her friend, T, has a little sister the same age as J and they were passing snacks to each other. I noticed they were speaking Korean to each other. The little sister started demanding more snacks and T tells her in Korean "jookae, jookae, (i'll give it , i'll give it)" Then E leans over and asks T, " Are you speaking Spanish?" Hubs and I started cracking up. It was so funny.

I told this story to my mom and she didn't find it funny. "Why doesn't E know Korean... she should learn..." I know that she wants E to learn Korean and E knows some words but I find it hard to speak to her in Korean especially everytime I do... she'll respond by saying..." I'm not Halmuni!" E is so funny.

I think E knows more spanish then Korean. She watches Dora and she'll learn some Spanish word. I should find a show that's Dora-esque that teaches korean words. My mom will be coming soon so maybe I'll ask her to speak korean to E.

4 comments:

RBK said...

too funny! i miss your little girls!

jl said...

J's hair's so cute. I have to cut A's hair but she says she likes her long hair... when did you do it? while she was sleeping? after shower?

I want to find some Korean program too... I did get a Korean song CD on Amazon though... what about Popopo? are they still exist? Maybe Korean video person might know...

Anonymous said...

"I'm not Halmuni!" --- soooo funny!

Anonymous said...

Allie, some of the moms over at Kimchi Mamas (http://kimchimamas.typepad.com/) are starting an online group for exchanging Korean learning methods, flash cards, whatnot... that might be helpful? Rachel (over at Kitchen Fire) did say that her Bella watches Ppoppoppo - although, I don't know how widely it's available.
I know - I could speak Korean to LN but it's hard when everyone else around me speaks English to her and she already communicates so well, I'm reluctant to throw in another language (don't want to jinx it, I know, it's silly).
Too funny... I think I'll watch Dora (or Diego since LN prefers Diego) and see if I can imitate her or his methodology!