An dieser Stelle möchte ich mal eine etwas andere Buchempfehlung machen: “Lüttjet Platt – Mein erstes Platt-Buch” von Valeska Scholz ist ein ganz herrliches Kartonbilderbuch mit den ersten unumgänglichen Wörtern, die jeder plattschnackende Schietbüdel kennen sollte. Plattdüütsch ist schließlich eine ganz eigene Sprache (und genausogut wie ein Jodeldiplom ;-))

In the TED talks series, here is one on language acquisition that shows some quite fascinating findings. Watch it here.

Two days in a row I managed to capture my little girl talking to herself, in what I’m told experts call “jargon”. Please listen to these two soundbites: “bap” talk And watch her read:  

After two weeks of two-on-one (that is, Mommy and Daddy with Baby 24/7 or pretty much so), our baby girl has returned home with many new impressions (such as 17°C North Sea water is very nice, fine dry sand on the beach above however is not), but with very little new expressions. If pressed, I’d […]

A friend of mine in the U.S. of A. is a professional voice artist. She has also adopted our little girl as her granddaughter and is planning to teach her English long-distance, via the modern means of communication. To start with, she sent a picture dictionary and an MP3 of her reading it. A sample: […]