SAME HERE TTHEE DIFFERENCESS WEE SHARE Written by SUSAN HUGHES Illustrated by SOPHIE CASSON Owlkids Books
We All Need to Communicate WHAT WERE YOUR FIRST WORDS United States
Si Dah woozh Hi Hello I’m Erica and I love to talk Sometimes Mom and Dad say they should have named me Chatterbox I said my first words before I was even one year old They were dah woozh si and hi Dah woozh is how you say strawberry in Navajo My mom is a member of the Navajo Nation and grew up speaking both Navajo and English Si is how you say yes in Spanish My dad grew up speaking Spanish and English in his family And I said hi because Mom and Dad speak English to me too So I know words in three languages I love how words connect me to my family and our history
