Hellobee Boards

I read it in the other language. I figure that maybe I will learn something from it as well. As J has gotten older there are some words he never says the english version for, so it's good to pick up the smaller words they might use regularly when they first start really talking.

It's the other way around for us (I can read the Vietnamese books, but the hubs cannot)-- if C brings him a Vietnamese book, he just translates or reads the English parts only (most of our Viet books are bilingual).

It depends how hard it is, ha. Sometimes I read it and I'll do alright if it's not a hard book, sometimes I just mangle on through, though I will try to get DH to help me with the pronunciation if it's a book she wants regularly, and sometimes I just translate it to English (I can read it better than I can speak it). I like translating sometimes because I think she understands English better at this point so it might help her get the gist of the story better once she hears it in both languages.

I will usually read it but if not then we just look at the pictures together and describe what's going on together.