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Mon Hérisson

February 26th, 2009 charlie

Tillie’s learning curve for french has arced upwards really quickly recently.  All of a sudden, she is happy to chat in either language, and if you ask her a question in french, she answers in french, too.  I suspect that this is mostly due to the fact that, as far as I can tell, she and her friends basically sing all day at crêche. So, when she comes home, she sings the new songs she’s learned for us.  Her current favorite is mon hérisson (recorded surreptitiously while she was singing to herself in bed while “reading” one of her books):

For those whose knowledge of the french children’s music canon is about where ours was a few months ago, here is a more traditional rendition of the same song:

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