Maya speaks really well.
It's now so much fun to have "conversation" with her on the way home from her preschool.
Today's conversation goes like........
Me : "How was the school? Was it fun?" in Japanese
Maya: "Yeah." in English
Me : "What did you do?" in Japanese
Maya: "Teacher Faina" in Russian
Me : "Did Teacher Faina teach you anything?" in Japanese
Maya: "Teacher Faina taught me many things." in Japanese
Me: "Wow! That's great!!" in Japanese (I honestly was pleasantly surprised how she said the full sentence.)
Me : "What else did you today?" in Japanese
Maya: ".........."
Me : "Did you sing songs?" in Japanese
Maya: "Yeah. I sang songs." in Japanese
"And then I play Daniella." in Japanese
Me : "Oh that's right. You like Daniella, huh?" in Japanese
Maya: "Maya likes Daniella." in Japanese
Me : "Who else did you play with?"
Maya: "And then I play Nana." in Japanese (I don't know if there's a kid name Nana.)
"And then I ate meal a bit ago." in Japanese
Me : "Oh really. What did you eat there?" in Japanese
Maya: "I ate meal." in Japanese
"I ate cereal." Japanese sentence with "cereal" said in English
"And then.... I ate Nana." in Japanese (at this point, I daught Nana is her classmate. )
"And then I want milk!" in Japanese
And we sang "Rain song" in Japanese and "Turkey song" in English together.
Maya sang some other songs I don't know which she learned from school.
It's really troublesome to drive 1.5 hours for the pickup, but I feel it really worth taking her to this lovely Russian preschool. She is a happy happy kid when I come to pick her up at the end of the day.
学校帰りの長いドライブ中、マヤとのおしゃべりがすっかり楽しくなった今日この頃。
今日はいくつもちゃんとしたフレーズを言って、びっくりさせてくれました。
私：「ファイーナさん今日は何教えてくれた？」
マ：「トォルテ ファイーナ（ロシア語で園長のファイーナ先生の呼び名；ファイーナおばさん）、いろんなことおしえてくれた。」
とか、
私：「あとは？何した？」
マ：「ダニエラあそぶ」
私：「そっかー。マヤ、ダニエラ好きだもんね。」
マ：「マヤ、ダニエラすき」
私：「あとは？何した？」
マ：「うたうたう。」
「あとは〜、さっき、ごはんたべる。」
私：「ほんとー。何食べたの？」
マ：「さっき、ごはんたべた。シリアル食べた。ナナ（？）食べた。あとは〜。。。。ぎゅうにゅうほしぃっ。」
It's really amazing when some perfect sentences come out from her mouth.
In the flight back from St. Louis the last Sunday, when I said something to Toli about Maya lowering my voice, she goes "What're you saying?" in perfect English.
I think now, she understands and speaks three languages evenly.
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