Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Var Svenska pojke


So for all of you interested in how this whole bilingual baby thing has been working out, I thought I'd share a little. He definitely understands Swedish much better than English, which is to be expected since he's with me all day almost every day and is exposed to much more Swedish. All the words he says are Swedish, with a mixture of Boozie-isms thrown in. His list of words so far:
-umpa (sock)
-ampa (lamp/light)- his favorite thing to do is turn lights on and off and he recently discovered the touch lamp in his bedroom; he looves it. it's the first thing he says when I get him out of his crib.
-bop (ball. Although the Swedish word for ball is similar to English so who knows how he came up with the -p ending. It's adorable though)
-mama
-papa
-daaa-t (it's his own word for egg. we're not sure where he got it)
-detta (this)
-titta (look)
And I think that's all.
He also looves dogs and barks whenever any dog-looking animal goes by, is in a book, etc... This includes birds, elephants, zebras, lions, etc... This morning at breakfast he realized there are dogs on his pajamas and he was very distracted by them while trying to eat his oatmeal.

6 comments:

Becky said...

so cute!

Sarah said...

you should totally get a dog!

Amy said...

How cool is that. Halle must speak Swedish also because I can't understand a thing she says...it's not english or spanish.

maybe when you move to the "country" you can hook Boozie up with a real dog.

Unknown said...

Jag är så glada att Charlie använder svenska. Jag kan undertand han ett ord konversationer.
Lucky me!! Thanks for sharing and for google to translate and type it out in Swedish! :-)

Anonymous said...

Jag är så imponerad! Du är helt underbar! Och så duktigt som lär din son svenska! KRAM

Emily said...

Hi, I'm an old friend of Ts' from high school. I found your blog thru the Griners. I think it's awesome that your son is bilingual. I hope T understands some Swedish too:)