Comments on: Children’s Books in Spanish

By: mangkorn

mangkorn — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:12:21 +0000

There are several quickly recognizable similarities between Spanish and English, (i.e., the -cion suffix and the -tion suffix).

It is easy to suss out that “relaciones publicas” is “public relations.”

And, then, you see how that is expressed in Thai…

Cheers.

By: rikker

rikker — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:42:21 +0000

We’ve already started picking up a few Thai/English bilingual baby books for our newborn, when we can find them. The ones we have are too basic for me, but as she grows up it will a great source of learning for both her parents (in their non-native language).

I’ve been hording Thai translations of books to read to my kids for a while, long before #1 came along last month. Roald Dahl books, Wizard of Oz books, Stuart Little, Hans Christian Andersen, Aesop’s Fables, you name it. I can’t wait to see my kids experience all these books for the first time, and in both languages. And learning some new vocab myself will just be a bonus.

By: thomas

thomas — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:16:27 +0000

That’s a cool find. For Christmas we got my infant son a couple books like that. They aren’t Usborne, but each set of pages is a theme with a bunch of nouns on it. The two we have are bilingual Japanese/English (and pretty good, although there are a few strange English translations in there. Band-aid is called “adhesive plaster”. wtf?) I’ve been meaning to go through and learn some new words with it, but I haven’t had the time yet.

You’re right about not learning grammar with them, but it’s easy to take sentences you learn and swap words. For example, if you have a sentence “Where is the bathroom?” in your SRS, you could make a new entry that says “Where is the sponge?”