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today’s word is another that is fun (and pretty) to say: mariposa (mah-ree/tee*-POH-sah) which in English means, butterfly! *if you roll your “r” it sounds more like a “t” sound… if you can say “ladder” or “butter” then yes, you can roll your “r‘s”– that “dd/tt-er” part is basically a rolled (or trilled) “r!” Bilingual [...]
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Today’s word is possibly my favorite word in Spanish: cacahuate (kah-kah-WAH-tay) (how fun is that to say?!) which in English means, peanut! {another way to say peanut is maní} Bilingual Chiquita Update In just a couple of weeks, Chiquita is already reacting and responding to my Spanish. Thanks to her sign language, she understands that [...]
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