Listening: Kommando Känguru (Die sagenhafte Saubande 1), 0:00-15:00.
Viewing: Die Sendung mit der Maus: Sachgeschichten, "Das Krankenhaus" (28:20); Die furchtlosen Vier, 0:00-42:00.
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The Weger book, which comes with a recommendation from a colleague and fellow German-kiddie-playgroup parent, is J's first real excursion into something more like "youth" than "children's" literature. I'm curious about whether he will like it. At first he didn't seem to and wanted me to stop, then changed his mind and asked me to keep going, and by the end of the chapter he seemed quite interested. We'll reinforce this reading with the audiobook later today.
There's a good bit of slang and youth idiom in this book, for example Schiss haben = Angst haben. The way I deal with slang is the following: I lean in conspiratorially towards J, lower my voice, and tell him what the expression means, but that it is kind of impolite and that he should not go around using it and that he should definitely not let Thusnelda hear him using it or she will probably reprimand him. Friedel won't mind, however.
We also encountered the word Wumpe here, in the expression Das ist mir Wumpe, which means Das ist mir egal. I had never heard this before; apparently it is pretty new on the scene.
Wow, he really liked the audiobook. It's actually a "szenische Lesung" based on the book, and ends up compressing the introductory chapters. The voice actors are very talented; especially the poodles are very well done.
At 13:00 the poodles tell Mateo that he may end up in an insane asylum (Irrensanstalt) if grown-ups hear him talking to animals. J was very interested in what an Irrenanstalt is and bombarded me with questions: who goes there; if it's true, as the poodles say, that they "stuff you with pills" (dich mit Pillen vollstopfen) there; why pills; and if these kinds of places still exist. I told him that they do, though people are not kept there forcibly as much as they used to be, and that some people are mentally so ill that they have to be kept on medicine so that they stay calm and don't hurt themselves and others. He wanted to hear this section again.
Whew. About ready for this:
Total video 2015: 14:00
Age 5.3.26
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