Ana's language...

[conuly]

Few observations:

1. Yaygix means "music". If you can explain this, please do.

2. She seems to be gaining new words more slowly. At least, she's not using new words as much, though she may understand them. There's less "Wow, I didn't know she knew that word!" now. However, her grammar is every day getting more refined, when previously it had been pretty much staying still. She's working harder at putting words in the correct order, saying "don't" instead of "no", adding affixes to her verbs, that sort of thing.

3. She's using French much less often. She responds to it when my mother speaks it, but now she consistently will respond in English. Exceptions: Good-bye phrases.

4. She's experimenting a lot with pronouns, nouns, and names. It's like now she's asking "Am I 'I', 'me', 'Ana', or 'girl'? Do I say 'he sleeping' or 'man sleeping' or 'somebody sleeping'? Is that 'Connie', 'you', or 'her'?" where before, she didn't seem to have that problem - she just skipped the naming word if she wasn't sure.

5. She definitely knows all her colors, though she's a bit shaky on brown, gray, and pink. Also, when she's bored with the question, she'll deliberately give an answer she knows is wrong. She does the same thing with counting. If you catch her at it alone, she consistently is correct in counting. If you ask her to count, even if you count with her, she'll give a completely absurd answer... "One doggy, two doggies, three doggies! How many doggies, Ana?" "TEN!" Girl's got a completely inappropriate sense of humor.

6. She recognizes the alphabet, even when it's in a different format than the way she's seen it before. She thinks it's a cue to sing the alphabet song.

7. She tells stories now, things which've happened to her in the past few days. She's really a good little actress.

Here's a question, which will have no impact whatsoever on what I post, but which I'm curious about regardless:

Do you care about the Ana stories more than the Ana language, less than the Ana language, or about the same? Do you care about either at all? Do you think that she'll google herself later and get mad at me?

Comments

[peaseblossom03.livejournal.com]

I'd say about the same; both are really interesting to me.

[fledchen.livejournal.com]

I think Ana's sense of humor is definitely appropriate for her age. Very young children find absurd things to be very funny, and a small child's perception of what is absurd is rather broad.

[conuly]

*grins*

I know.

But it's annoying when I want to reinforce the idea of "one, two, many, lots" (or however it's supposed to go), and she's throwing out "ten!" like nobody's business.

I'm going to do what I did to get her off of "gween sky!" - let her get it wrong the first couple of times, but when she gets it right, give her a big old hug/spin/kiss.

[peaseblossom03.livejournal.com]

It might in fact be her way of making a joke. If she's intentionally giving the wrong answer and giggling when someone says, "No, you silly!" then it might be her way of "messin' with ya" for her own amusement.

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

I like both equally. Not having much experience with kids just learning to talk, the language part is really fascinating to me.

And the stories...Well, cute little kid stories are always in demand. *laugh*

[eofs.livejournal.com]

I like both equally.

And for the music... when my brother was little, my mother was bemused because he for some reason was saying "doft" when he meant "cold" and she couldn't work out why. Then one day she realised. If he touched a radiator which was on and jumped away, she'd say "hot!" but if he touched a radiator, found it wasn't hot, and looked at her quizzically, she'd say "off!" So he thought off (doft) was the opposite of hot.

So maybe it's something along those lines.

Of course, my brother and I both developed our English late and instead spoke in our own languages so I'm not sure why doft was such a surprise. Maybe he was saying it once he was beginning to get the hang of English.

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

I like 'em all.

[beetlebomb.livejournal.com]

"Yaygiks!" for "music! I like that! Kids make up the most interesting words and a lot of words they use we've incorporated into our own language.

For example, when my friend Wendy's brother was little he used to call chocolate milk "gogweguck!" and we've been calling it that ever since she told me that story!

Another one of my favorite words is "boomph". It is one of those circular globes found on street lights.

ANd of course, Janette coined "GUYEEERE!" when she was just a toddler and it's an expression I still use often to mean a combination of every happy, positive word/phrase imaginable!

A lot of these anecdotes can be found in my community logodaedeli

[pne.livejournal.com]

I like both, occasionally.

[peaseblossom03.livejournal.com]

I'd say about the same; both are really interesting to me.

[fledchen.livejournal.com]

I think Ana's sense of humor is definitely appropriate for her age. Very young children find absurd things to be very funny, and a small child's perception of what is absurd is rather broad.

[conuly]

*grins*

I know.

But it's annoying when I want to reinforce the idea of "one, two, many, lots" (or however it's supposed to go), and she's throwing out "ten!" like nobody's business.

I'm going to do what I did to get her off of "gween sky!" - let her get it wrong the first couple of times, but when she gets it right, give her a big old hug/spin/kiss.

[peaseblossom03.livejournal.com]

It might in fact be her way of making a joke. If she's intentionally giving the wrong answer and giggling when someone says, "No, you silly!" then it might be her way of "messin' with ya" for her own amusement.

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

I like both equally. Not having much experience with kids just learning to talk, the language part is really fascinating to me.

And the stories...Well, cute little kid stories are always in demand. *laugh*

[eofs.livejournal.com]

I like both equally.

And for the music... when my brother was little, my mother was bemused because he for some reason was saying "doft" when he meant "cold" and she couldn't work out why. Then one day she realised. If he touched a radiator which was on and jumped away, she'd say "hot!" but if he touched a radiator, found it wasn't hot, and looked at her quizzically, she'd say "off!" So he thought off (doft) was the opposite of hot.

So maybe it's something along those lines.

Of course, my brother and I both developed our English late and instead spoke in our own languages so I'm not sure why doft was such a surprise. Maybe he was saying it once he was beginning to get the hang of English.

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

I like 'em all.

[beetlebomb.livejournal.com]

"Yaygiks!" for "music! I like that! Kids make up the most interesting words and a lot of words they use we've incorporated into our own language.

For example, when my friend Wendy's brother was little he used to call chocolate milk "gogweguck!" and we've been calling it that ever since she told me that story!

Another one of my favorite words is "boomph". It is one of those circular globes found on street lights.

ANd of course, Janette coined "GUYEEERE!" when she was just a toddler and it's an expression I still use often to mean a combination of every happy, positive word/phrase imaginable!

A lot of these anecdotes can be found in my community logodaedeli

[pne.livejournal.com]

I like both, occasionally.