Entry FeedHola! Soy Dora.
No, I don't speak Spanish. No one in our family is Spanish. However, I am finding that my daughter is speaking more and more Spanish lately. Thanks to Dora and Diego, she no longer says, "please" or "thank you!" but "por favor" and "gracias!" To open doors she says to me, "say Abre!"
It is incredibly cute of her, and pretty funny coming from a pale, blue-eyed, white blond. I catch her counting, and if the total is five or less, she always counts in Spanish. Do these Dora and Diego cartoon producers at Nickelodeon have any idea of their influence?
I think it is time we come up with a Canadian French cartoon so that our children can learn our other National Language (yes, I know that French is a dying language and that Spanish really will serve her better in the long run). How about a little girl named Minue? or Josephine? She'll have blue eyes and straight light brown hair, and a little poodle named Naf-Naf. Josephine will eat queues de castor, and visit all of our great Canadian tourist attractions like La Tour CN and mail postcards back to her friends.
Hmm... this could really fly. And children all of over this great country of ours won't start JK saying, "Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco!"