We've been in Brussels less than two months, and JoJo is already bilingual! But you may be surprised what the second language is: "JoJo language." She regularly babbles to herself, and occasionally Amelia joins in. It's a language that JoJo invented which is not consistent over time. The phonemes sometimes sound more like English, sometimes more like French, and sometimes more like Hebrew. The meanings of the sounds/words are pretty much what JoJo capriciously decides they are in the moment.
So that's the "what." The "why" is presumably because she was aurally confronted with sounds of babbling (to her) at school and around town, and so she decided to respond in kind. She enjoys speaking in JoJo language, whether anyone else is listening or not, and it's pretty cute to see.
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In addition to their own babbling gibberish language that they claim to understand clearly, my girls also have a language in which you replace the first letter of every word with the first letter of that day of the week...
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I still can't get over that Amelia said "je me fache" so precisely. love to all. Mom/Omi
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