IDIOMATIC FUSION

During my holidays in Spain in met a family made up of two grandparents, their daughter, her husband and their two children from 3 to 7 years.

Grandmother was French and grandfather was Spaniard and both lived in Spain; their daughter was married to a Frenchman, son of an Englishman and a Frenchwoman, who lived in France with their two sons.  They were also with an English friend.

I was surprised by the way adults spoke to children, alternately in English, French or Spanish and how children answered them spontaneously in the language they had been talked to.

I mean, if they were asked in English, they replied in English, and it happened the same with French and Spanish.

I thought  those children had a gift for languages, but days after I realized that children didn’t speak three languages, English, French and Spanish, they only spoke ONE LANGUAGE, which a vocabulary made up of English, French and Spanish’s  words and synonymous .

Children had achieved in a completely intuitive way THE FUSION OF THREE LANGUAGES IN ONE.  Of course,  with three times of vocabulary.