X was counting in Swedish this morning up in the "twenties." He clearly hasn't fully mastered the "twenties" as I heard him saying the equivalent of "twenty sixteen" and other twenty-teens. As we haven't worked much on our 20s yet in English I thought I'd do a spot check to see how high he could count in English. So I asked him:
--How high can you count?
He considered the question a second and started off from ONE in English speaking VERY loudly. I quickly shushed him realizing that he'd literally translated the question and tried to speak as loudly as he could. The word "high" when modifying speech indicates volume level. I've made the error in Swedish a number of times asking Swedish children how "loud" they could count. They normally look at me as if I were nuts. Children are intuitive that way.
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