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32 [trenta-dos] Al restaurant 4

I’d like chips / French fries (am.) with ketchup.	Una porció de patates fregides amb quetxup.
And two with mayonnaise.	I dues amb maionesa.
And three sausages with mustard.	I tres salsitxes torrades amb mostassa.
What vegetables do you have?	Quines verdures teniu?
Do you have beans?	Que teniu mongetes / fesols?
Do you have cauliflower?	Que teniu coliflor?
I like to eat (sweet) corn.	M’agrada el blat de moro.
I like to eat cucumber.	M’agrada el cogombre.
I like to eat tomatoes.	M’agraden els tomàquets.
Do you also like to eat leek?	També li agrada el porro?
Do you also like to eat sauerkraut?	També li agrada la xucrut?
Do you also like to eat lentils?	També li agraden les llentilles?
Do you also like to eat carrots?	També t’agraden les pastanagues?
Do you also like to eat broccoli?	També t’agrada el bròquil?
Do you also like to eat peppers?	També t’agrada el pebrot?
I don’t like onions.	No m’agrada la ceba.
I don’t like olives.	No m’agraden les olives.
I don’t like mushrooms.	No m’agraden els bolets.

Babies are lip readers!

When babies are learning to speak, they pay attention to their parents' mouths. Developmental psychologists have figured this out. Babies begin to read lips around six months of age. This way they learn how they must form their mouth to produce sounds. When babies are a year old, they can already understand a few words. From this age on they begin to look people in the eyes again. In doing so they get a lot of important information. By looking into their eyes, they can tell if their parents are happy or sad. They get to know the world of feelings in this way. It gets interesting when someone speaks to them in a foreign language. Then babies begin to read lips all over again. In this way they learn how to form foreign sounds as well. Therefore, when you speak with babies you should always look at them. Aside from that, babies need dialogue for their language development. In particular, parents often repeat what babies say. Babies thus receive feedback. That is very important for infants. Then they know that they are understood. This confirmation motivates babies. They continue to have fun learning to speak. So it's not enough to play audiotapes for babies. Studies prove that babies really are able to read lips. In experiments, infants were shown videos without sound. There were both native language and foreign language videos. The babies looked longer at the videos in their own language. They were noticeably more attentive in doing so. But the first words of babies are the same worldwide. "Mum" and "Dad" – easy to say in all languages!