1. When telling her to go to the bathroom to do her business…
“NO NEED!!”
I think she got this from school. The way she says it is sounds very Manglish.
2. When coming out of the bedroom and seeing Baba and Amir watching TV….
“Hi guys!”
This one she got it off watching Barney.
3. When she wants to play with us…
“Ring around a rosie”
It’s an indication that she wants to play with us by having everybody holding each other’s hand in a circle. Her ‘rosie’ usually sounds ‘roghi’ which kinda sound like a French ‘G’.
4. When brushing my hair…
“Comb my hair”
Instead of saying “comb your hair”, she’s just repeating what I’m saying to her
5. When she falls down or knocks over something…
“Oh sorry”
I think she associates the word ‘sorry’ with pain or getting hurt. Because the first time she said it was when we were at the park and she was playing on the slides. One girl rushed to the steps and accidently bump into her. The girl said “oh sorry”. Then I heard her repeating it to herself. That’s why whenever she falls down and crying as loud as she can, she’ll be screaming “oh sorry” at the top of her lungs.
6. Holding out her foot to us…
“Syok”
What she’s trying to say is ‘socks’.
7. When she takes out 2 pieces of bread, she would ask us for some…
“pee-a buder”
‘Peanut butter’ if you haven’t already guessed.
8. Her favourite song at the moment…
“The more we get togewer, togewer, togewer
The more we get togewer
The happer were be”
Sang an octave higher than the one she heard on Barney
9. When she puts on her apron and sweetly looks up at us…
“Painting”
She wants to make a mess… err… I mean do her painting, of course.
There are more, but at the moment I can’t remember. But she is slowly learning to grasp the language and we are learning to understand her more and more. The most important thing is, when she’s trying to say something, and it comes out all jumbled up, we try to put ourselves in her shoes. Then look at the surrounding or at the things she’s pointing to or what’s in her hand, and then try to remember every single lines or songs spoken/sang in either Barney, Elmo’s World, Fun Song Factory, Teletubbies, Preschool Powers, Baby Bumblebee, Hi 5, 102 Dalmations, The Sound Of Music or Stuart Little 2.
See…. it’s easy!!!
4 comments:
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My favourite is “Ring around a rosie”
It sounds so feminine...hehehhe
feminine? that is so NOT nadiah. She's so kasaq that we'd consider tea kwan do rather than ballet for her.
Anyway, how ya been??
and I love barney too.. hug Nadiah for me, will you? I watch most of her favourite cartoons.
hehe... same here!!
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