The speed of progress

Jonathan is exposed to so many triggers, that it is surprising that he can grasp them all. His DVD's are an endless source of surprising information and have recently helped unearth his talent for languages.

Jonathan has a good ear, just like his mom a talent for sounds and melody is also turned into a talent for languages. Despite the fact that Jonathan suffered from a delay in speech, it was clear that he distinguishes languages. Recently, after watching a DVD of “letters form Felix the hare” Jonathan has focused on the English-like accent of characters that come from the USA or Australia and the UK. He thus roles his R's and proclaims by such “English sounding” rolling R dominated gibberish to speak “English” and he wants me to repeat his new found words and to speak English with him...

I find this especially endearing, as I have clear memories of myself playing a similar game with my twin sister when we are about 4 or 5 years old. We imitated the American mother of one of the children form our kindergarten - rolling our R's and making gibberish sounds (or was she south African? I do not really remember, but the last time I saw her was in South Africa when I was about 10 – and by then I could speak English fluently).

My mother says that Jonathan repeats many of my quirks as a child. M