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Vocabulary, rhymes and poetry: how nursery rhymes help learning to speak

2022-01-08T07:15:14.060Z


ANALYSIS - Based on absurd stories, all parents sing along to put their toddler to sleep or calm anger. But what do these rhymes mean?


It is 6.30 p.m., Gaspard, five months old, is starting to get impatient.

The time for the bottle is still a long way off, the time for the bath has already passed.

Then, with the tips of his little feet, the chubby toddler gets angry and bangs them against the ground.

Attracted by this beginning of anger, her grandmother arrives, who hastens to sing a song to her.

So do, do, do, the little puppets.

In a few seconds, Gaspard calms down.

His delighted grandmother follows on to a new melody.

Cadet Roussel has three houses, which have neither beams nor rafters.

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Nursery rhymes that are passed down from generation to generation.

But come to think of it, what do they mean?

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Mum, do the little boats that go underwater have legs?"

But yes my big beta, if they didn't have one they wouldn't work.

This story is beyond comprehension.

Another example, "

do you know how to plant cabbages, fashionable, fashionable here?"

"The answer has something to surprise a child, and even an adult:"

we plant them ...

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Source: lefigaro

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