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<blockquote data-quote="HaoZi" data-source="post: 475570"><p>English grammar is very different from most languages, or so I've been told. His early exposure to Arabic would have left an impression on him as well, especially in cadence I think. Being four, he sounds like most 4-6 yro's I've heard talk. When Kiddo was a wee babe (i.e. in the babble stage) her father used to watch martial arts movies in the original language with the subtitles all the time (like marathons of the same movies repeatedly, shoot me please!). I swear she babbled in Mandarin, it certainly sounded like it (based on cadence, length of sounds and time between pauses, etc.) She still shoots out sentences like that now at times, though she's never spoken anything but English and a few Russian phrases we learned from podcasts.</p><p></p><p>The thing with female vs male pronoun sounds pretty normal for his age, too, and since he's a he, it's natural for him to lean on the masculine pronouns. Girls tend to refer to a lot of things with female pronouns for a while, too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HaoZi, post: 475570"] English grammar is very different from most languages, or so I've been told. His early exposure to Arabic would have left an impression on him as well, especially in cadence I think. Being four, he sounds like most 4-6 yro's I've heard talk. When Kiddo was a wee babe (i.e. in the babble stage) her father used to watch martial arts movies in the original language with the subtitles all the time (like marathons of the same movies repeatedly, shoot me please!). I swear she babbled in Mandarin, it certainly sounded like it (based on cadence, length of sounds and time between pauses, etc.) She still shoots out sentences like that now at times, though she's never spoken anything but English and a few Russian phrases we learned from podcasts. The thing with female vs male pronoun sounds pretty normal for his age, too, and since he's a he, it's natural for him to lean on the masculine pronouns. Girls tend to refer to a lot of things with female pronouns for a while, too. [/QUOTE]
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