Learning to speak within - and with - our own world

My 3-year-old son started talking a while ago, but only recently in English.

Most people who encountered the blond-haired, blue-eyed boy during his recent summer vacation in the rural United States figured he was babbling, rather than attempting to converse with them in Mandarin.

Strangers in northern Michigan would hear me responding to Sagan and, at least sometimes, presumed we were foreign.