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[posted by bkmarcus] |
I strongly suspected that Benjamin's vocabulary would hit the 200 mark today, but what would the 200th word be? Earlier this evening he was misbehaving, hitting a flashlight against the floor and ignoring his mother as she told him to stop. At this point, she usually warns him that he'll get a timeout if he doesn't stop, and then she gives him a three count: un, deux, trois ...
But tonight the exchange went like this:
We'll have to investigate, but meanwhile I'm wondering, Was that his 200th word? "Two three"? Nathalie says no, it's not clear that he knows what those words mean.
Then I hear them discussing dinner. Nathalie is saying that they'll have pork for dinner and Benjamin is insisting that they should have popcorn instead. Nathalie stands firm on the no-popcorn-for-dinner decision and elaborates on the pork by telling him it's mu shu.
Mu shu! Mu shu! Mu shu! — he won't stop saying it.
So is his 200th word "mu shu"? No, he just seemed to be enjoying repeating it. When I showed him a bowl full of mu shu pork later this evening and asked him what it was, he couldn't identify it for me.
But what he did do during dinner was ask his mother for a cuillère (spoon).
So our boy knew the word "chopstick" before he knew "fork" (or baguette and fourchette, in this case) but his 200th word is not Chinese for delicious shredded pork in brown sauce, but French for spoon.
But tonight the exchange went like this:
Nathalie: Tu veux un timeout? Un ...Two three? Where did he get that from?!
Benjamin: Two three!
We'll have to investigate, but meanwhile I'm wondering, Was that his 200th word? "Two three"? Nathalie says no, it's not clear that he knows what those words mean.
Then I hear them discussing dinner. Nathalie is saying that they'll have pork for dinner and Benjamin is insisting that they should have popcorn instead. Nathalie stands firm on the no-popcorn-for-dinner decision and elaborates on the pork by telling him it's mu shu.
Mu shu! Mu shu! Mu shu! — he won't stop saying it.
So is his 200th word "mu shu"? No, he just seemed to be enjoying repeating it. When I showed him a bowl full of mu shu pork later this evening and asked him what it was, he couldn't identify it for me.
But what he did do during dinner was ask his mother for a cuillère (spoon).
So our boy knew the word "chopstick" before he knew "fork" (or baguette and fourchette, in this case) but his 200th word is not Chinese for delicious shredded pork in brown sauce, but French for spoon.
- concombre (cucumber)
- salad (pronounced "sasa")
- baguettes (chopsticks, pronounced "bagack")
- Gumby
- pomme (apple)
- hurt
- ours (bear)
- gâteau (cake)
- marteau (hammer)
- hammer
- fourchette (fork)
- again
- dessin (drawing)
- mitten
- crème (cream)
- crayon (the English word, not the French word for pencil)
- BC (meaning the alphabet song, as in "mo' BC!")
- narine (nostril; he has a cold, 1-Dec-07)
- cuillère (spoon)
- papa
PS I'd like to add to Papa's post that it is not clear to me that Benjamin knew the word for "chopstick" before he knew the word for "fork." He simply used it first. He demonstrates every day that he knows lots of words he can't say yet. For example, tonight I asked him where his papa's "barbe" (beard) was, and he touched his father's beard and I thought I heard him say "beard" (Brian, however, didn't hear it, so I might have been hearing things). Brian was undressing him for his bath this evening and asked him what was next, and Benjamin told him "couche" (diaper), clearly understanding the word "next." I'll ask him to put something on the sofa (or ask him not to draw on the sofa...) and he'll do it (meaning he'll put the thing on the sofa—or draw on the sofa again, but that's material for another post). And yet he never uses the word "sofa."
-maman
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