just to let you know

lost in translation

It recently occured to me that there could be more that I can do as a german father to teach Milly german. I thought that I could really speak more in my native tongue to her.

Basically, I had become lazy and preferred english when talking to Sal or Milly. When I was tired and exhausted, I chose english over german as it was simply easier for me to converse to Sal and Milly at the same time. I resorted to german songs from Milly's favourite german songbooks and that was that. Now I do rate the singing in german quite high as well. In my opinion, it can teach you a lot about the phonetics and the "sing-song" (that's what I call it) of a language.

"But there should be more.", I thought and decided to speak more of the day-to-day talk with Milly again in german. Somewhere along the parental path of the last months I lost my german touch, I found. So it was just about time I go back into german "yik-yak" again.

It was harder than I thought! It almost feels like I have to learn this sort of german again. Which is funny really, as years back I tried desperately to get rid of any german traces in my english, whereas now I almost have to go back and think and act more german again.

Maybe I should start with some sunbeds and towels...

Posted by Michael at November 13, 2004 12:06 AM