We saw this on Facebook tonight. It's an account of the dinner conversation at the Morton house this evening.
Sveta: Do you know what bonjour means in French?
Barry: Yeah. Hello. Do you know what hello is in Spanish?
Sveta: Hola.
Barry: How about in Chinese?
Sveta: Ni Hao
Barry: How about Russian?
Sveta: Oh, that's a hard one!
Jessi says, "Crazy little Russian doesn't know any Russian. Breaks my heart."
How quickly our little Sveta forgets. Two years ago she spoke nothing but Russian. Now she remembers virtually none of it. The human brain is amazing.
I've often wondered what would happen if Sveta took Russian as a foreign language in high school or college. Surely that language resides somewhere in the deep recesses of her brain. I bet she'd recall it better than we think. Interesting thought.
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