Now, if you do focus on the journey and not the destination, however, you will learn just how fun it is to learn a language. Especially if you’re somewhere between the ages of 2 and 6 when you learn complex words and mispronounce them with equal yet entertaining complexity.
And then your parents laugh about it with the rest of the world because social media requires a sacrifice.
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And as is with every journey, learning a language comes gradually. Kids will start off from babbling and move on to monosyllabic and polysyllabic words, then will venture into building simple two-word sentences, then add words to build longer sentencesad infinitum.In the same manner, they will also experiment with and practice languages, leading them to make mistakes in all facets of language use, including mispronunciation.
And as is with every journey, learning a language comes gradually. Kids will start off from babbling and move on to monosyllabic and polysyllabic words, then will venture into building simple two-word sentences, then add words to build longer sentencesad infinitum.
In the same manner, they will also experiment with and practice languages, leading them to make mistakes in all facets of language use, including mispronunciation.
Now, saying revert is not really accurate—they have actually moved forward, just that they started applying grammatical conventions instead of just mimicking.
At this point, the kid understood what the singular form offeetwas, and they understood that plural words take ansat the end. Hencefeets. But it was wrong because English is a hot mess of a language that follows rule sets from ten if not more languages, and folks who learn it as a foreign language have to deal with the constant facepalming when they realize thatbuffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalois a grammatically correct sentence.
And so, learning a language happens pretty much in the same gradual way, no matter if it’s language production or reception. And this is where mishearing and mispronunciation come into play.When children learn languages, they will sometimes learn to pronounce them just like they would other words they already know. Hence,cheese crisisandwhack-a-molelikeguacamole.
And so, learning a language happens pretty much in the same gradual way, no matter if it’s language production or reception. And this is where mishearing and mispronunciation come into play.
When children learn languages, they will sometimes learn to pronounce them just like they would other words they already know. Hence,cheese crisisandwhack-a-molelikeguacamole.
It’s this similarity that empowers kids to learn further, applying the rules and paradigms they know to words that the English language ends up ruining for them.So, yes, it’s quite logical to pronouncefettuccineas if it rhymed withmedicine, mishearFrench hensashenchmensand, instead of sayingheebie jeebies, you sayHebrew Bee Gees.
It’s this similarity that empowers kids to learn further, applying the rules and paradigms they know to words that the English language ends up ruining for them.
So, yes, it’s quite logical to pronouncefettuccineas if it rhymed withmedicine, mishearFrench hensashenchmensand, instead of sayingheebie jeebies, you sayHebrew Bee Gees.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is fun in more ways than one. Not only are these tiny linguistic mishaps cute and adorable, it also shows the beauty of watching kids grow up and grasp concepts that are mundane to us. Yet, how they experience it might just defamiliarize us, broadening our own perspectives, thus continuing the cycle of learning and better understanding the world.
In fact, kids are an amazing source of understanding the world. Because of their unrestricted way of thinking outside the box, they often find very smart, and sometimes funny ways ofexpressing their problem solving skills. And that’s just what we see on the surface—inside their heads, tons upon tons of processes are going on, and creativity is just one of many results that follow.
So, with all that said, have you ever heard kids mispronounce the heck out of something to a degree that made you crack up? Why not share those instances in the comment section below!Be sure to upvote the listicle, and if you want more, then check outanother of our listiclesabout the times kids delivered stories in their own words that could only ever result in awkward and hilarious misunderstandings.
So, with all that said, have you ever heard kids mispronounce the heck out of something to a degree that made you crack up? Why not share those instances in the comment section below!
Be sure to upvote the listicle, and if you want more, then check outanother of our listiclesabout the times kids delivered stories in their own words that could only ever result in awkward and hilarious misunderstandings.
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