30 things about me
1. I have lived 27% of my life in China. I moved here in March 2010 and have only been back home for holidays. 2. I’ve only had four boyfriends, only the first one Finnish and the last one is my husband. 3. I have studied Chinese for roughly 10 years, that’s one third of my age! 4. My favorite sports are snowboarding and horse riding, but haven’t done either since I moved to China. Now there is a horse riding stable close to my home! 5. I moved out from home when I was 15 because I wanted to go to a high school specialized in creative writing. That…
A 2-year-old learning Chinese and Finnish
When our daughter started speaking she spoke mostly Cantonese as she was home with a nanny a lot. But now Mandarin had completely replaced it and Finnish is a good second. At home I speak Finnish with Anna and my husband speaks Mandarin. She goes to daycare where she hears both Mandarin and Japanese. Cantonese she hears once a week at the grand parents house and English occasionally when we meet friends. Anna has now clearly entered a phase of rapid language learning. She is starting to form sentences like 佩奇睡觉 Peppa is sleeping and 佩奇哪里啊 Where is Peppa. Yes, Peppa Pig is hugely popular at our household. In Finnish…
