Bilingual Learning Gifts

"OK...let's practice your Spanish! And we'll start with things you know...like this! Your computer joystick! In Spanish, it's...it's...el joystick."

"And the last little piggy cried, 'Oui, oui, oui' all the way home."

Pirate boy reciting the alphabet

"You and your, 'why bother to learn another language. Everyone in the known universe speaks, Zarconian'!"

Restaurant Francais: All you can pronounce £30.

"You've got to learn about verbs. How else are you going to verbalize your feelings?

Man packing suitcase with French vocabulary

'What amazes me most is that years ago I couldn't even spell teacher - now I are one!'

"We've decided that it will be better for his later development if we speak to him only in legalese."

"He doesn't really talk yet, but he does some sound bites."

Wishing Well, Wishing Good.

'Who teaches apostrophe usage?'

"How do you say ‘Where is the bathroom’ in Sanskrit?"

'Stick them up...'

'Your stab at ordering the wine in French went well.'

"Letters would be all right if they'd just let us leave them in alphabetical order."

"My master's vowel hyperarticulation is wearing a bit thin..."

'Now that we've learned to talk, maybe we should establish some speech codes.'

'She speaks 6 languages and can't say 'No' in any of them. . .'

"At some point, there's only so high you can raise the volume before you admit you're never gonna understand what British detectives are saying."

"You can use the alphabet to text. You can use the alphabet to tweet. Why can't you use the alphabet to spell?"

'Now, what's Italian for pizza?'

'This is the fun part...waiting to find out just what we've ordered.

'I made a hundred on the Spanish test. Gracias.'

With the aid of a tactical dictionary, and was finally able to make sense of what the salesman was saying.

"It's translated from French, so where it says 'Harvard Business School' it may mean 'jail.'"

"What's another word for 'thesaurus'?"

'To them, capital punishment means making them use proper capitalization.'

Populating URBAN DICTIONARY.

'Now what? Everything I can pronounce is OFF!'

"Bet she says 'moo' before she says 'oink'."