I think she’s German. Everything sounds like ‘Nein.’
While it’s possible Isabel has some German heritage passed down through my Jewish side, whatever language she is speaking isn’t German. Spanglish maybe, but not German. See, language is wonderful, when it bloody makes sense. A baby learning to talk is definitely cute and fascinating – but it’s kind of annoying because a single word sound means something different from one second to the next. I mean, Isabel makes the same “mum mum” sound when her mouth hurts from teething, when she sees the iPad glowing from across the room, when she’s frustrated because she can’t climb through her mountain of toys, when she just wants us to turn the page on her favorite book, or when she wants more pesto. Parents have enough signals and clues to decipher already, why can’t babies just make it easy!?
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