At 15 month 3 weeks old, my little girl's vocabulary is pretty impressive, here are the words regularly heard, although some still incorrectly pronounced:
Baby language: mum mum (food), gai gai (go out), nen nen (milk), pom pom (bath), kut kut (drink water), night night (good night), oi oi (sleep), poo poo and she she [you know what these means :-)]
Mandarin words (learnt from the babysitter): yang yang (itchy, and she will lie down on her tummy and expect to be scratched on her back), pa pa (scared, and she will gently pat her chest), pau pau (full, while rubbing her tummy) and mei mei (pretty)
People: mummy, papa, po po (grandma), a-ti (aunty), uncle, yi yi (my youngest sis), popo (grandma), kor kor (elder brother), ceh ceh (elder sister), baby
Food/fruits: apple, orange, nana (banana), grapes, bread and o-gurt (yogurt)
Transport: car, van and lorry (yes she can differentiate them)
Body: eyes, nose, chin, mouth, teeth, ears, toes and elly utton (belly button)
Animals: bear, dog, cat, duck, ant, en-da (panda), i-ger (tiger), bird, ish (fish), cow, ab-bit (rabbit), bunny and bee [she can also match the sounds made by some of these animals to the animals itself such as wow wow for dog, meow for cat, moooo for cow, baa baa for goat and bzzzz for bees]
Others: cup, chair, book, fan, hour (flower), tree, air-ro-plan (aeroplane), moon, star, shirt, bib, shoe, keys, ar-ney (money), clap, jump, run, walk, kick, throw, am-poo (shampoo), nod, scared, shake, come, good (she can do thumbs up sign) and the most common one which is 'NO'.
I am sure I have forgotten some words. She can also understand many others although she couldn't say them just yet (well, its just a matter of time). A colleague commented that she would probably be just as talkative as the mom and I won't mind a bit :-).
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I am also waiting to hear Megan's first words. I am sure my heart will melt just as it did when Ryan got his first words out. Now, I can't get him to shut up!
Scary that all my friends said the same thing... the only time they shut up is when they sleep.. :-)
Hehe, you must be so proud of Hayley! And not bad, she knows words in Mandarin too!! Mine doesn't know...he just laughs at any language that's not English. Weird, huh?
I requested for the babysitter to speak with her in Mandarin. Although we're not sure yet if we'll send her to a Chinese school but it is important for her to know how to speak and understand Mandarin, at least.
You can try teaching Ryan some Mandarin words. He will absorb them like how he picked up 'otherwise' :-).
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