Just over e weekend, it dawned on me tat Lil Shauna is largely monolingual. She can do simple mandarin words like "ping guo" (apple), "mian bao" (bread), "pi gu" (backside), "tong tong" (pain pain), "tang" (sweets) n her famous "bu yao" (dun want), but those are about all.
I converse with Daddy Lim mainly in mandarin but we would automatically switch to English when we have to communicate with Lil Shauna. The maid speaks to Lil Shauna in English as well (of course lah). Only my mum speaks to Lil Shauna in partial mandarin n partial broken mandarin. But strangely, tat does little to her mandarin. Fione speaks good mandarin while Felicia speaks simple mandarin, only Lil Shauna didn't seem to get e vibes. Hmmmm...
Just e other day, ah yee played mandarin er ge for Lil Shauna via you tube n Lil Shauna was so stun. She stared at e video as if e kids were speaking in tongues. *palm-face*
I know we should do more to help her to be bilingual, but it is so difficult to look at her n speak to her in mandarin. Oh no, we have an ang mo kia. It is so hard to b parents now.
Mummy Lim
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