My two-year-old has been exposed to several different languages since she was a newborn. I’m only fluent in one other language (Spanish), but I can wing it in a few others. Plus, other people have spoken to my daughter in different languages.
Interestingly, she is already connecting the dots when it comes to languages. When she hears salsa music, she asks about Tio Javi (who’s from Colombia). When she hears French, she automatically thinks of Didi, a grad school friend who visited us from France last year.
The most interesting thing, though, is how she made the connection in Slovak. I only learned a little Slovak from my dad, but I’ve make sure that my little girl knows some of the basics: jak sa maš? (how are you?) and dupa (rear end). She had been saying both individually for a while when one day, she put them together and said “Jak sa maš, dupa?“
