Over the long weekend, we went to see friends in Germany whose son is the same age as our little girl.

The two hit it off right away, but for the first day and a half our girl used the method of “if he doesn’t understand me, I must repeat and speak more loudly”.

“Viens, viens!”

On day three, to my utter delight I overheard my daughter asking her new friend in the staircase:

“Komm hoch!”

Later the same day we visited a farm. The farmer welcomed us accompanied by a big dog. When the dog didn’t come all the way to the cows’ stable, my daughter commented:

“Il kommt pas.”

And in the stable nursery, she greeted one of the calves:

“Hallo petite Kuh!”

She also repeated words and sentences her new friend and his parents would say, which she mostly doesn’t do with me (though she likes to echo her dad or the nanny speaking French). And since our trip to Germany, her “dan-” or “dank-” have become

“dankeschön!”