petite anglaise

singing in tongues

66 comments

1. Delightful! And Petite breaks yet more new ground. You and Tadpole have a great partnership and it obviously make you so happy to be with your little one. It makes the rest of what life can throw out you at times fall into perspetive. Enjoy growing older together!

   fella | 9:33 pm

2. Fab!

   anxious | 9:38 pm

3. how about a duet?

   Pomgirl | 9:51 pm

4. That gave me a big smile…

   Alaska | 10:20 pm

5. So cute! That reminds me, I was babysitting a little french girl (same age as Tadpole) and I only know 1 French little kids song, and so I just sang the first thing that came to mind – Twinkle twinkle. She just stood there, mouth open in shock, and then when it finished she said “encore! encore!” I had to sing over and over because as she said “I don’t know your song so you have to sing it” Tadpole does a much better job

   Adorable.

   karina | 10:24 pm

6. My nine-year old brother just made me sing the ‘thank you very much…’ Quality Street advert down the phone. Unsurprisingly, it sounded nowhere near as cute as Ms Pole.

   Anonyme | 10:52 pm

7. Une autre, une autre!!!

   Maurine au bout du monde | 10:54 pm

8. That’s adorable!

   Amélie | 2:54 am

9. that gave me chillbumps. so lovely.

   isabel | 3:08 am

10. So cute!!!

    Brought a smile to my face …

    Jan | 3:53 am

11. I loved that.

    Fixed Up Girl | 5:43 am

12. But, where’s the French? Where’s the accent at least? What kind of Tadpole is that? (but nice as it was)

    joeinvegas | 6:02 am

13. very cute!

    jimmmy | 7:10 am

14. Wonderful to hear her voice! that’s a keeper for sure for when she’s grown. more, more and tell us how you got that into the blog?
    all the best,
    caroline

    caroline | 8:03 am

15. Lovely – the two little troopers keep saying “Again Again” and joining in.

    Universal Soldier | 8:25 am

16. and for my next trick, tonight I will try to get her to sing a French one, to the same tune, called “Ah! Vous dirais-je Maman!”

    With her hands tied behind her back to prevent microphone fiddling.

    petite | 9:32 am

17. how cute is that?…

    Isabel, are chillbumps the same as goose pimples? never heard the expression chillbumps before but it sounds like something my three year old daughter would say…

    croque madame | 9:33 am

18. Well if she can do “Ah vous dirai-je maman” as well as “Twinkle…”, she’s a clever girl indeed, as the words are a lot more complicated. Can’t wait to hear her!

    céline | 9:40 am

19. A couple of years ago, when my little girl was only four, we were sitting in the cafe in Marks & Spencer a few days before Christmas, surrounded by middle class, middle aged shoppers. Absolutely deliberately, I encouraged my little one to sing “Away in a Manger”, which she had just learnt at nursery. The cafe gradually fell silent, and by the end there was hardly a dry eye in the house.

    Never underestimate the potency of cheap music, as Noel Coward said.

    Tony S | 9:52 am

20. Star Ac next!

    Parkin Pig | 10:10 am

21. One of the little parisiennes that I babysit just learned the same tune, and has been practicing with me on the Métro so she can do it really well for her English teacher. She is so proud of being able to sing in English, albeit with a cross between a French accent and an American one (mine).

    It’s fun to hear the differences and the similarities. And knowing how proud they both are just warms my heart.

    I taught her 10-year old sister “Oh Susannah!” on line 14 yesterday. She wants to be able to sing it in English while she plays it on the piano for her French (Corsican) solfège teacher.

    Thanks for sharing–your daughter has a beautiful voice!

    Ronica | 10:24 am

22. Magical! Your blog gets more charming with each post…
    (Sorry if this posts twice, my last attempt went into space.)

    Katherine | 1:12 pm

23. How absolutely sweet! My sister (13 years my junior) used to sing ‘Tinkle tinkle ickle tar’ at about the same age as Tadpole. It brought back lovely memories . . . .

    Sandy | 1:38 pm

24. Back again cos I’ve just played this again and I’m dead chuffed to hear that your nipper has got a (flat vowelled) Yorkshire accent!

    Parkin Pig | 2:20 pm

25. That is way too cute !

    magillicuddy | 2:34 pm

26. Oh…BLESS!

    grannyp | 2:39 pm

27. Soooo sweet, has brightened my day no end.

    I only know one french nursery rhyme, that one that goes (and please excuse the dreadful spelling)…

    taper taper taper les mains
    tourner tourner petit moulin
    nager nager petit poison
    voler voler petite avione

    If you’re doing requests, can she sing this one next, PLEASE

    Cat | 2:45 pm

28. Again, again!

    christina | 2:59 pm

29. That was too cute!

    juliana | 3:11 pm

30. Thanks, Tadpole!

    R J Keefe | 3:33 pm

31. yes, croque madame, they are the same thing. although i should have typed ‘chill bumps’, not ‘chillbumps’. and grownup people use the expression along with three-year-olds, i believe.;)

    isabel | 4:01 pm

32. My father has a tape of me singing from when I was three, which he breaks out annually to embarrass me. When my son hit three, he recorded him on the other side, and suddenly it became a treasured possession. It brought a tear to my eye to hear Tadpole, knowing the pride you will feel listening to it as she ages.

    21st Century Woman | 4:59 pm

33. Ah ça c’est trop mignon!!!

    Eau | 5:58 pm

34. That brought a smile to my face. Cheers.

    Greg | 8:14 pm

35. Now THAT is what I call a lazy post…

    Child labour, way past bedtime etc etc…

    (not really, I think it’s a great idea. Oh the wonders of modern technology)

    Mancunian Lass | 8:48 pm

36. She’s not for sale, is she?

    Neptune, God of the Seas | 9:36 pm

37. I didn’t record it after bedtime, it just took me rather a long time to work out how to audioblog…

    Might try and write some words tomorrow though.

    petite | 9:54 pm

38. fantastic!!!

    Renatta | 11:04 pm

39. And if you play them simultaneously, you get a very john coltranesque free jazz thing going on.

    EasyJetsetter | 11:43 pm

40. I love the last bit in French: “moi je dis que les bonbons valent mieux que la raison!” So cute.

    And I LOVE the way she pronounces MAMAN! With lots of accentuation on the 2 syllables!

    Maurine au bout du monde | 12:52 am

41. That is just too adorable! Of course I couldn’t really understand the French version (but that’s my bad French at fault for the most part) but she sure can carry the tune in both languages. Maybe you’ve got a young chanteuse on your hands… is she channeling Edith Piaf?

    Lisa | 2:21 am

42. We can really hear she is more on the Brit side with her english accent when she sings in french. This is all very cute.

    Pink | 2:46 am

43. My first post here, but I have lurked for quite a while. Tadpole is adorable. The recording put a smile on my face. You are a superb writer, thank you for creating such a touching personal blog.

    susjjan | 4:39 am

44. I don’t know which version I find more adorable…Ok I pick the French one!! It’s amazingly cute!!

    Eau | 9:50 am

45. Benisse! (If that’s the right version. A bit shakier on French…)

    grannyp | 10:43 am

46. That is the cutest thing ever, bless your daughter!!

    Red | 10:47 am

47. Oh dear Petite. Now I will have to wait until I get home, as playing Tadpole’s tunes in the office would cause heads to turn!

    rjh | 11:00 am

48. Oh my god, now that I’ve listened to both versions I’m going to run right out and have another baby.

    She’s adorable.

    christina | 12:17 pm

49. I think a Christmas single is called for. Does Tadpole know any Slade songs?

    Px

    Pomgirl | 1:08 pm

50. It’s snowing here in Holland…so some X-Mas carols would fit perfectly!!!

    Eau | 5:42 pm

51. That was way to cute! My two franco-american girls are not as advanced in language as my first daughter who spoke only english. I think it slowed them down learning two languages at once but the doctor said by three bi-ling kids usually sort it all out. Little Bear (just turned age 3) is finally separating english and french. Before she mixed the two languages in one sentence. For example: Little Bear mange, hungry! Favorite songs in our home is This Old Man and Row, Row, Row your boat.

    Pumpkin Pie | 6:21 pm

52. What a wonderful young lady. Christmas carols next please.

    Rob | 4:26 pm

53. Oh, I loved hearing Tadpole sing!
    Hope to hear a mother-daughter rendition soon.
    Elle

    Elle | 12:33 am

54. Am I the only one who can’t hear the files??? I press play, but then nothing happens….no fair!!

    Samantha | 5:16 pm

55. BRAVOOOOOO Tadpole!!! *applause*

    Kiora | 6:01 pm

56. Fantastic !!!!!

    Negrito | 6:50 pm

57. Simply adorable!

    Stash | 7:12 pm

58. Samantha – crank the volume up as they are quite soft…

    Otherwise, I don’t know why that would be… sorry, you are the only one.

    petite | 9:55 pm

59. weblog awards link

    I’m going to put you in for EU blog !!! You should let everybody know about this !!!

    Alaska | 6:17 am

60. Oh my God that is the cutest thing ever!!

    Sarah | 8:43 pm

61. I need to get a toddler to get more comments on my blog(-;

    jez | 10:01 pm

62. Btw, unlike a previous commentator I could hear no trace of foreign accent on either version. She’s a proper little bi-lingo lassie!

    jez | 10:11 pm

63. I finally figured out what Tadpole was singing, it tooks sometime to get through her French (I don’t have a trained ear), but I thought it was interesting her version was about candy…more of a moral story than the “American” version.

    Cute all the same.

    Fixed Up Girl | 6:52 am

64. So how hard was it to use audioblog.com? The result is quite good and works nicely in your page. You mentioned above that it “took you a long time” and I’m curious as to the issues.

    Thanks!

    Gary | 7:50 pm

65. Brilliant. My Maia (2) loves that song the best and pleads every night as I tuck her in “how I wonder”. I will play her your v.o.

    roger | 12:22 am

66. Now that was just the cutest ever!! Just adorable. :0)

    Medina | 12:42 am