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Date: Monday, 14 April 2008 04:38 (UTC)No worries!
I usually feel bad when I don't have time to read my friends page, since I feel I'm missing things happening in my friends' lives, but I think one shouldn't feel obligated to keep up if there are other things in your life.
out of German and English, which language does she actually speak the most?
German, hands down.
It's no doubt a factor that Stella - whom she sees for a lot more hours in the day than me - speaks German to her.
Also that the children around her speak German, but the mother effect might be stronger given that Amy's cousins speak better English than German (AFAIK), and my sister speaks to them in English.
Though their German is also decent, and Amy will speak to them in German since they obviously understand it and respond in that language :) Even though English is their "main" language. I wonder whether she feels weird speaking English to someone other than me, or whether she just speaks German to them because it's easier for her and she can get away with it.
Also, when she's playing by herself and (she thinks) nobody is listening, she'll speak German about 95% of the time, though she does occasionally speak English to herself.