Learning Ukrainian
Mikola is not the only one learning another language . . .I'm trying very hard to delegate housework to the children. It's uphill, since the initial teaching phase takes more time than just doing the job yourself. But in the last month, I've insisted every day that Sarah and David clear the breakfast dishes from the table before we leave for school.
One morning recently I saw Kola helping his siblings, with a bottle of honey in one hand and a jar of Nutella in the other. Since his mouth was also graced with Nutella, I knew he still needed to brush his teeth, so I excused him from clearing the table.
"Kola, brush your teeth please." ("Kola, cheesti zube prochu.") But instead of telling him to brush his teeth, I had incorrectly used the word for eating ("yeasti").
He looked at me and suddenly grinned. He knew Mom had make a mistake in her Ukrainian; after all, who eats their own teeth?
posted by Stahlkes @ 1:05 PM
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