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]]> By: BethO http://spanglishbaby.com/ask-an-expert/ask-an-expert-my-girl-doesnt-say-many-words-in-english-is-that-normal/#comment-20657 BethO Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:17:27 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=11141#comment-20657 Persis, we also are doing one parent for each language, and I can tell you that even despite all my reading and research, I was beginning to have doubts about my son really being able to use both languages well. It seemed like he got sort of stuck in a certain way, for a long time. Although his total vocabulary was always increasing, he seemed to make no movement AT ALL in being able to speak all in Spanish to a Spanish-speaker or all in English to an English-speaker. In fact, when he was younger and his “sentences” only consisted of two words it was not such a problem, but as his sentences got longer, since I’m the only one who knows both languages pretty well therefore I was the only person who could understand him. It’s often true with babies that Mommy is the only one who understands but in our case this stage just lasted a really, really long time. I may add that he truly seemed to understand very well, whether someone talked to him in one language, or the other. It was just him speaking. He didn’t seem to find it too frustrating, but everyone else sure did! Then suddenly, one day he came running up to his aunt and me, to show us a bug he had caught in his hand, and saying “Mira Tia! Look Mommy!’ Within literally a couple of weeks after that day, everything just fell into place. It was like a switch had been flipped. Now, when he meets a kid at the playground I see him go up and talk to them in one language, and if they don’t answer he immediately tries saying the same thing in his other language. So not only can he respond to the language a person speaks to him, but he recognizes these are two separate language systems, in a general sense. Even though I kind of knew it would be like this eventually, it still seems totally amazing! However, it is true, it really happens!

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