re: #252 HappyWarrior

My niece’s mother is Peruvian. Like your mother and her siblings, she came over as a child too. My brother doesn’t know much Spanish but his wife speaks is pretty fluently still so they’re trying to have their daughter learn both English and Spanish. I really think it’s a great idea since I think it will make her a much better student. A funny story though. As you see, I’m pretty well assimilated in that none of my parents or grandparents are foreign born but for some funny reason I called my one grandmother who is of Slovak parentage “Baba” for the longest time as a kid. I call her Grandma now but she was “Baba” for a while.

My English-speaking brother was having an argument with his German-speaking partner. Their daughter said to her mother, ‘Why don’t you try telling him in English?’ because she knew that was his first language, figured he just didn’t understand.