Comments on: Belleville education

By: Danna

Danna — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 21:12:00 +0000

My newest advice to parents of young children is to record them while they are laughing. There is something special about a very small child’s laugh, it’s whole hearted. Just a little later, maybe six or seven, it changes. I wish I had thought of this soon enough to capture my toddler daughter’s gales of laughter and giggles. I remember the day I heard the development of her “adult laugh” in her teens.

Thanks for the chinese lesson! Nee How Ma!

By: Penny in Amsterdam

Penny in Amsterdam — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 14:24:45 +0000

I think it translates as:
If I going to talk rubbish
I going to talk rubbish in Chinese

By: Maxi

Maxi — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:41:50 +0000

and clever, too

By: Maxi

Maxi — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:41:33 +0000

How cute! Never stops amazing me how celever tiny children can be with languages. Shes wonderful!

By: simon t

simon t — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:08:18 +0000

are you sure she is speaking French? Tadpole sounds distinctly Chinese to me!

By: Sylrob

Sylrob — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:00:44 +0000

Wow! The connexion between “Belleville” and your daughter’s “chaï-woï-kwoï” led me to believe that in no time she’ll start learning how to prepare wen zhou noodle soups.
Belleville is really the best! She’ll soon speak 1/3rd Chinese, 1/3rd Arabic and 1/3rd slang French with the old “fortif” Parisien accent ;-)
Have fun!

By: Pierre L

Pierre L — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 07:30:15 +0000

Sorry, meant to say “white rectangle”.

By: Pierre L

Pierre L — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 07:28:31 +0000

Hello Margie
You need the Macromedia Flash player in order to see the link to Tadpole’s voice. If you don’t have this plugin installed in your browser, all you see is a white triangle between the two paragraphs of text.
Pierre L

By: Margie

Margie — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:32:16 +0000

Am I hopeless? Why can’t I find where to click to listen like everyone else? It shouldn’t be that hard, right? It’s only a 2-sentence post…where can the link be hiding?

Thanks!

By: Paris Lights

Paris Lights — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 20:26:44 +0000

I read all the comments and listened to Tadpole’s extremely cute ramblings three times, but I still don’t get what she “doesn’t do anymore”…
Just got back from Little Miss Sunshine and completely agree with all your praise and enjoyment. I was laughing out loud (occasionally alone) for two hours. Thanks for the tip!