"Quick! Look at the pony!" - "C'etait pas 'a pony'. C'etait ослик."
I don't think anybody can tell me why most animals speak Russian in my son's world. Or why his dreams about the future are all in English. Or why the naughty words are all in French. The truth is, it is only natural that your multilingual genius will adopt a certain strategy when dividing up his world into logical language areas. Sometimes, it will end up in a Mommy-English, Daddy-Spanish, Gran-French system, whilst at other times it will all be about Bathtime-English, Playtime-French etc. It all depends on the child's individual circumstances and their perception of the world and the relative importance they allocate to certain matters in certain situations.
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