It seems this last year, Sophie's grammar has become quite atrocious, even for a fairly precocious 5 year old......anything from "more gooder" to "did we drove" to "Sophie fall down" to "I haven't took it" to "Momma, I win two times" to "much funner," and so on. I probably need some singalong songs like Grammarchants to help her out, or maybe read more "Once Upon a Time" books. I realize the English language is quite complicated. I too am still learning; wish I would have paid more attention in my English classes. I don't believe we really speak English, but rather American. I've been told many times, it's actually easy to learn English up to a certain point and then it becomes very ambiguous. One of the words, well a part of a word that someone pointed out to me with different pronunciations is "ough." The letter sequence O-U-G-H is the worst example of this confusion. Here are some examples where the same sequence of 4 letters all have different pronunciations:
through / blue
thought / caught
plough / cow
though / toe
tough / cuff
trough / off
thorough / burrow
For a newcomer, I can see how the inconsistency of English pronunciation can be a major headache....just ask my husband who is an extremely logical guy.
Picture: Sophie, 4 years
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