We started to read books to Pineapple when she was relatively young, maybe only a few months old. It wasn't quite reading at first. It was more like showing pictures in books. We read at least a few books a day including bedtime stories, and that was a fun thing to do.
It was probably about Feburuary or March when we discovered that Pineapple had started to read several words in Japanese. It's been more than 6 months since then, and now she is able to read books in Japanese (both Hiragana and Katakana) and English! It amazes a lot of people in her life, including us.
As parents, we are very happy to see her reading skills. I do think that it's nice that we didn't really have to teach her how to read. Since she likes reading, she was eagar to learn on her own. We are simply there to read to her several times a day. Her grandma reads to her in English over Skype, too. I guess she started to recognize all the characters while we were reading to her.
I hope that Basketball will follow her in the similar ways. He is interested in looking at pictures in books, and sitting in our laps reading together. He sometimes sit through whole books we read to his sister.
パイナップルがまだ小さい時、たぶん２、３ヶ月の頃に本の読み聞かせを始めました。最初は読んでいるという感じではなく、本の絵を見せているという感じでした。寝るときのお話を含めて一日に最低数冊は読んでいて、楽しくやっていました。
２月か３月だったでしょうか。パイナップルが日本語で数文字読み始めているのに気がついたのです。あれから６ヶ月以上経ちますが、今となっては日本語（ひらがなとカタカナの両方）と英語を読めるようになりました！私達を含め、周りの人を驚かせています。
親として、これほど娘に読む力がついているのを見るのはとても嬉しいものです。読み方を教えていたわけではなかったのが、さらに良い事だったと思っています。一日に何度か読み聞かせをしていただけなんですから。グランマもスカイプで英語の読み聞かせをしてくれます。この読み聞かせをしているうちに、自然と文字を読めるようになったのだと思います。
バスケットボールも同じように娘の後を追ってくれる事を望むばかりです。今の時点では、本の絵を見たり私達の膝に座って一緒に本を読むのも好きですし、お姉ちゃんに読んであげている本の読み聞かせにずっと座っている事もあるほどです。
reading? looking at pictures? by himself on one hot day this summer
夏のとある暑い日に、１人で読書？絵を見てるだけ？
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