During preparation for a dinner, Emma got her plate, cup, bread, butter, when she recognized, that something was missing, so she spoke up:
Bilingual kids can sometimes create sentences mixing words from different languages. I created this blog to capture some that I thought shows very well how creative a young mind can be sometimes.
Monday, October 10, 2011
I don't have the lemez.
Emma was looking for one of her DVDs and after some searching when she still could not find it, she turned to us and said:
It száll down.
On one morning on the way to school, a hot air balloon made a probably not too much planned landing in a nearby subdivision. When Emma saw the hot air balloon she made the comment:
I wanna sprinkles and sima.
On a Saturday morning when we asked Emma what type of donut she wanted, she said:
Sunday, September 4, 2011
I wanna tol the kocsi
Earlier today we went shopping for groceries. Mommy asked Emma if she wants to sit in the shopping cart, when Emma answered:
I pukied!
The other night we smelled something wierd and started to look around trying to find its source, when Emma confessed:
Remark: here the Hungarian word itself is mixed as well => Hungarian verb with English past tense. :-)Wednesday, August 17, 2011
We want presents, beads, csoki.
Emma's answer for the question of what she would like to get from our family members who are going to visit us from Hungary, soon:
kifigurálni vs figure out
From Peter Bulyaki via Facebook: I remember for one from the children of Hungarian-American parents: kifigurálni (instead of "figure out")
Sunday, August 14, 2011
It csöpped into my eye!
Emma at the end of taking a shower, she looked up to the shower head when water dropped onto her head...
Remark: here the Hungarian word itself is mixed as well => Hungarian verb with English past tense. :-)
Remark: here the Hungarian word itself is mixed as well => Hungarian verb with English past tense. :-)
I am eating mag.
Emma was eating sunflower seeds and when I asked her what she was eating, she answered:
I am eating mag.
Emma napraforgó magot evett, amikor megkérdeztem tőle, hogy mit eszik…
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