Speaking 'properly' or not

[Mary Ann]

Lynn wrote about her daughter:

>>>She'll only speak dutch to her Oma.  She still understands it as 
her daddy keeps speaking to her in Dutch (so do I when I don't want 
others to know what I'm saying to her) so I'm hoping she start 
speaking it again when she feels more comfortable.<<<

Perhaps your daughter will understand Dutch but not speak it.  I 
understand my parents' dialect perfectly but I can't speak a word of 
it because I never lived in that area of the country.  Mind you, my 
brothers never lived ther either but one of them can imitate that 
dialect so well that he can fool the locals.  He used to have my 
mother, now deceased, in stitches with his imitations of our 
more "interesting" relatives.

Mary Ann, skiving off housework