For the past few months, my three-year-old daughter has spent an hour every week learning a foreign language. She taps along the corridor to a small room in a local school, where she and a handful of three- and four-year-olds spend the next hour dancing to “La Vaca Lola”, a song about a Spanish cow, creating finger puppets to voice what they like and don’t like (me gusta, no me gusta) and shouting out which animals are big (grande) or small (pequeño).
近幾個月來,我3歲的女兒每週會學一個小時的外語。她走進本地一所學校,沿著走廊輕聲走進一間小教室,然後在接下來一個小時裏和幾個三、四歲的孩子一起伴著「La Vaca Lola”——一首關於一頭西班牙奶牛的歌曲——跳舞,戴著手指玩偶說「me gusta, no me gusta」(西班牙語:我喜歡什麼,我不喜歡什麼), 喊出哪些動物「grande」(西班牙語:體型大),那些動物「pequeño” (西班牙語:體型小)。