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Will I harm my daughter's language acquisition by reading her stories in Swedish Chef?
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"Will I harm my daughter's language acquisition by reading her stories in Swedish Chef?"
Let me first reassure you that your concern is perfectly normal and reflects a genuine concern for your child's welfare which is laudable. The Swedish Chef is a perfectly valid dialect of English and your daughter will most likely relate to it as a second-generation child: she will recognize it and understand it, but once she is of speaking age will respond in a manner typical for your region to your Swedish Chef utterances, often with an accompanying plea to "act normal." You can safely ignore these pleas.
Thanks, mr. language person. I feel much more at ease now raising my daughter in a Swedish Chef-friendly household environment.
However, I stumbled upon a new concern tonight: what about reading stories with the words rearranged in semi Yoda-like fashion?
I think you should set the language preferences on google to swedish chef so that she grows up thinking that's the way the internet is supposed to be. (Because it is.)
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