Vocabulary checkpoint: 22 month
Baby-Ao seems to have experienced a developmental leap recently, based on his increased verbosity over the past 2-3 weeks. So …
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In late January, we wanted to test Baby-Ao’s understanding of what we say, in both French and Mandarin.
Reading | Chinese vocabulary: “Bad-tempered ladybird” & “Panda, Panda, what do you see?”
We’re trying to raise Baby-Ao to be trilingual, so the language I’m responsible for is Mandarin Chinese, which is a big ask, since my Chinese is laughably crap. I went back home for my friend’s wedding this past November, and the guys who knew me from back in the days were quite stunned that I was speaking so much Chinese – probably more Chinese in the course of several hours, than they had ever heard from me during the years they had known me.
Songs he sings
By “sings”, I mostly mean “hums”, except for “Ee ai ee ai oh” (from “Old McDonalds”), which he articulates quite well.
For the other tunes, there is often a hint of a shadow of words, which is why I know (or guess) that it’s in one particular language, even if there are songs with the same tune in different languages. The (language-specific) song he hums is listed first, followed by, in parenthesis, songs with the same tune in other languages that he is exposed to.