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Out of the mouths of babes...

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Jörg Luyken
Aug 24, 2024
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Dear Reader,

A couple of months ago, my toddler figured out that his parents speak to him in two different languages. Since then, he’s constantly been asking what things like Auto or Bagger are in ‘Papa English’.

He can now sort all of his books out into ones in English and German. What he hasn’t quite grasped yet is that English has its own rules of gram…

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