Baby talk
Five years have passed since I posted about Myles' vocabulary at a year-and-a-half. FIVE YEARS! Good grief has a lot happened since then. I had written that post to keep Randy updated on Myles' progress because at that time his job kept us living apart, even six months before he accepted the China assignment.
Myles was clearly speaking around 100 words at that point. Brigid's vocabulary isn't anywhere near that size, but she is also growing up in a bilingual environment. Here are some of the words that she says. Please note the "food-based worldview" as Jack Donaghy would describe it.
Mama
Dada
Hello--this she sometimes says with a bit of a Beijinghua accent, actually, so it sounds more like Hellor
Bye Bye--those Chinese people think she is saying 拜拜, a Chinese transliteration
Blueberries
Banana--comes out closer to Balala, interesting to me because of the closeness and interchangeability of the "l" and the "n" sounds in southern Chinese dialects
Sit down!
There
Bed
Book
Amen--though this could be 阿门
Juice, though sometimes it sounds as though she might be saying 汁 (zhī)
And in Chinese
哥哥 Gēgē--this was her first word
.叔叔 Shūshu--uncle, used to address all grown men
妹妹 mèimei--little sister, used to address girls younger than she
宝宝 Bǎobǎo--baby
瓜瓜 guāguā--this is a baby way of saying 黄瓜 (Huángguā)--cucumber, her current favorite food if dressed with a lot of garlic
狗 Gǒu--dog
马 Mǎ--she stretches this word ma-a-a-a-a-a to get the tone right, I think
到了! Dào le--Arrived. Seriously, when we've arrived at our floor on the elevator or the car has stopped somewhere, she says this. Her saying this always puts our friends that drive us around in hysterics.
Myles was clearly speaking around 100 words at that point. Brigid's vocabulary isn't anywhere near that size, but she is also growing up in a bilingual environment. Here are some of the words that she says. Please note the "food-based worldview" as Jack Donaghy would describe it.
Mama
Dada
Hello--this she sometimes says with a bit of a Beijinghua accent, actually, so it sounds more like Hellor
Bye Bye--those Chinese people think she is saying 拜拜, a Chinese transliteration
Blueberries
Banana--comes out closer to Balala, interesting to me because of the closeness and interchangeability of the "l" and the "n" sounds in southern Chinese dialects
Sit down!
There
Bed
Book
Amen--though this could be 阿门
Juice, though sometimes it sounds as though she might be saying 汁 (zhī)
And in Chinese
哥哥 Gēgē--this was her first word
.叔叔 Shūshu--uncle, used to address all grown men
妹妹 mèimei--little sister, used to address girls younger than she
宝宝 Bǎobǎo--baby
瓜瓜 guāguā--this is a baby way of saying 黄瓜 (Huángguā)--cucumber, her current favorite food if dressed with a lot of garlic
狗 Gǒu--dog
马 Mǎ--she stretches this word ma-a-a-a-a-a to get the tone right, I think
到了! Dào le--Arrived. Seriously, when we've arrived at our floor on the elevator or the car has stopped somewhere, she says this. Her saying this always puts our friends that drive us around in hysterics.
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