My six-year-old was teaching this song the other night to her sister. I had to pay attention to see if this was a new Arabic song she might have learned from her babysitter but realized after a sec it wasn’t Arabic or any other language we know. What was she singing?
“Korean,” she answered me flatly (in that, sigh mom, isn’t this obvious way). “Chu-Hee and Jeehyun taught it to me.” Those are two of her friends, both Korean, in kindergarten. I love hearing her sing the song, and she is obsessed with singing it lately. But my question for someone who speaks Korean is if this is really intelligible Korean? Please let me know in the comments!
It sounds like she jumbled up some words and its hard to make out what she is saying but it is definitely suppose to be Korean.
[…] of raising kids in the Bay Area is the diversity of cultures and languages all around us everyday. My daughter came home singing in a language I couldn’t readily identify last year, and after some fact finding, I discovered her friends at school had taught her a Korean […]
I know this is old, but she is singing a Korean patty cake song my mom taught my sister as a child.
I appreciate the feedback everyone! And how sweet that this song even brings up memories of your mom teaching your sister this song as a child Bill! It’s almost a year later and my daughter continues to be very interested in Korean thanks to her friends!
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