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Thursday, October 2, 2008

Non-English Vocabulary

My Chinese isn't good enough to speak to her in nonstop full sentence (I did try it but it felt funny), but I'm doing my best. I can talk to her in Chinese a little if we're with my relatives, but that's about it. Both Grandmas have bought us Chinese books to help us in our quest to have G be bilingual. It should also help to improve my Chinese as well as E's. I'm also doing a little bit of baby signing with her. 

Here's what we've taught her so far:

Signing words:
Mommy
Daddy
milk
more
all done
yucky
We've also done "please" and "thank you", but not much)

Chinese words:
nai nai (milk)
pei pei (security blanket, spit up cloth, yes, it's Cantonese, but my rationale was that it would also be to "pei" her, keep her company)
bao bao (hold, pick up, sometimes it's po po, in Cantonese)
ma tong (toilet)
da ku (big cry)
tu nai (spit up)
Wai Po & Wai Gong (maternal grandma & grandpa)
Tai Po & Tai Gong (maternal great-grandma & grandpa)
Jio Po & Jio Gong (maternal great-aunt & great-uncle)
G also just recently met her Da Gu Po and Da Gu Gong, so I guess she has those too, but since they live in LA, not sure how much she will get to see them and learn their names.

Korean words:
pongu: fart
dong dong: poop (we used to say da bien, in Mandarin, but have just recently switched it; we have a "dong dong on the ma tong" song)

What she currently says:
Aaaaa
Ggggg
Bbbbb
Vvvvvv

She's still working on her pronounciation, but we're getting there...