Friday, May 30, 2008

Dora in Chinese

Ethan is a big Dora the Explorer fan, but he watches it on Chinese DVDs. Its actually a version that's translated into Chinese, so imagine all the Spanish words in U.S. version of Dora being translated into English and all the normal English speech translated into Chinese. Some of the character names are still in English, Dora and Boots, for example, but others such as Map are translated into Chinese.

Ethan actually understands quite a bit of Chinese. There are some basic food words, like eggs or apples, which I'm not sure if he knows in English are not, since usually asked for these things in Chinese.
we have a made here and she only speaks Chinese. She'll tell Ethan to go put his shoes on or pick up a toy and he'll go and do it, so he understands more Chinese than he speaks.

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