Quote of My Daughter(4)女儿语录（4）

曾铮

I started teaching my daughter Chinese characters when she was one year old. Initially everything was under control; as I chose what to teach her and what she learned. Usually I taught her 3 characters per day. It was quite easy. Altogether the process only took about 10-15 minutes; and she always regarded this as another interesting game.
我女兒一歲時，我開始教她認漢字。剛開始一切很順利，我隨意撿些她日常生活中能接觸到的詞教她。一般每天教三個字，很容易，只需要花10-15分鐘左右，她不覺得這是學習或負擔，而總認爲是另一個很好玩的遊戲。
However, when she reached 2 years old; and started to pick up words and characters from unknown sources, things sometimes went out of control.
不過，到她兩歲時，事情就有點失控了，因爲她開始從不知哪裏自己積攢詞彙了。
For example, one day I took her for a walk after dinner. And she suddenly exclaimed in great excitement, “Mom! an ant is galloping over toward us!”
比如，有一天晚飯後我帶她出去散步，她突然圓睜杏眼驚呼道：「媽媽！一只螞蟻飛奔而來！」
—I could never figure out where she picked up the word “galloping”; and why she decided to connect it with an ant.
——我永遠也想不出她從哪裏學到「飛奔」這個詞，並決定把它用在螞蟻身上的。