Dos languages dos

Bidane is starting to read, now she can handle more than "pig or dog", but a lot of more words, like "paper or anybody". She loves Dr. Seuss books, she asks me to help her when she is "stuck".

For the english speakers that could sound a normal process of learning, but for me is much more, she learns, I learn.

I have to help with words that are not natural to me, and now I'm convinced the english is a language with "difficulties", -no offense- to read it, the child almost needs to memorize that see is see and sea is sea, you know? or that cross is cross instead of krs (like Bidane thinks).

I remember when I started to read, I could do it in a three months process, from september to december, by that I was able to write my Christmas letter, because in spanish one reads putting together one phonetic sound with a vowel, just five vowels sounds (all words have this combination at least once, like "si") and it is written as it sounds.

I did notice such confussion with Aitana, but she some way has a talent to write and soon she was over those difficulties, but Bidane, curious and logical as she is, she is starting to think that me is mee, becuase two e is e, in me too!( I know there is rule with ee that sounds "i" to my-self). When I say -me is me- she reacts like I'm crazy -by the way you don't speak english, mamá-, she possibly thinks.

You have to be a witness of our reading sessions, I say, "see is ver", "sea is mar"... And we don't start our spanish lesson yet...