Hannah and Verbs!

Hannah will start kindergarten in the fall. Hannah's language of schooling is English. But she does a lot of code-switching. It is just great to see how flexible she is when it comes to using the two languages. I wish I could do a brain scan to see what parts of her brain get used when she switches from one language to the other. She is fluent in both languages, and it is interesting to see how, when she uses verbs in Spanish, she regularizes them. So for example a ver like "poner" (put on), the past tense if "puse" (Me puse...) but she says "ponio." Or for "hice" (de hacer), she says "hicio." Therefore, the process that she went through to learn English verbs is the same process she is going through to learn Spanish verbs. Though the process seems to be slower, which makes complete sense, given the amount of Spanish she hears.