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).
近几个月来,我3岁的女儿每周会学一个小时的外语。她走进本地一所学校,沿着走廊轻声走进一间小教室,然后在接下来一个小时里和几个三、四岁的孩子一起伴着“La Vaca Lola”——一首关于一头西班牙奶牛的歌曲——跳舞,戴着手指玩偶说“me gusta, no me gusta”(西班牙语:我喜欢什么,我不喜欢什么), 喊出哪些动物“grande”(西班牙语:体型大),那些动物“pequeño” (西班牙语:体型小)。