Quote of My Daughter(4) 女兒語錄（4） — Jennifer’s World
I started teaching my daughter Chinese characters when she was one year old. Initially, everything was under control; as I chose what to teach her and what she learned. Usually, I taught her 3 characters per day. It was quite easy. Altogether the process only took about 10–15 minutes; and she always regarded this as another interesting game.
我女兒一歲時，我開始教她認漢字。剛開始一切很順利，我隨意撿些她日常生活中能接觸到的詞教她。一般每天教三個字，很容易，只需要花十到十五分鐘左右，她不覺得這是學習或負擔，而總認爲是另一個很好玩的遊戲。
However, when she reached 2 years old; and started to pick up words and characters from unknown sources, things sometimes went out of control.
不過，到她兩歲時，事情就有點失控了，因爲她開始從不知哪裏自己積攢詞彙了。
For example, one day I took her for a walk after dinner. And she suddenly exclaimed in great excitement, “Mom! An ant is galloping over toward us!”
比如，有一天晚飯後我帶她出去散步，她突然圓睜杏眼驚呼道：「媽媽！一只螞蟻飛奔而來！」
-I could never figure out where she picked up the word “galloping”; and why she decided to connect it with an ant.
— 我永遠也想不出她從哪裏學到「飛奔」這個詞，並決定把它用在螞蟻身上的。
1/30/2017
Originally published at https://www.jenniferzengblog.com on April 18, 2018.
