extracted from babycenter.com
19 to 24 months
Your child now understands as many as 200 words, though he'll probably use only 50 to 75 of them regularly. Many of these words will be nouns that designate objects in his daily life, such as "spoon" and "car." Between 18 and 20 months, his pace will pick up as he acquires ten or more new words each day. If he's especially focused on learning to talk, he can add a new word to his vocabulary every 90 minutes — so watch your language!
During this phase your child may begin stringing two words together, making basic sentences such as "Carry me." Since his grammar skills are still undeveloped, you'll often hear odd constructions such as "Me go." He's understood for some time that he needs language, and he'll attempt to name new objects as he observes the world around him. He may overextend the words he already knows, though, so that all new animals are called "dogs," for example.
Starting around his second birthday, your child will begin using three-word sentences and singing simple tunes. As his sense of self matures, he'll use "me" to refer to himself, and he's likely to tell you what he likes and doesn't, what he thinks, and what he feels. You may hear him say, "David want juice" or "Baby throw," for instance. (Pronouns are tricky, so you may catch him avoiding them.)
19 to 24 months
Your child now understands as many as 200 words, though he'll probably use only 50 to 75 of them regularly. Many of these words will be nouns that designate objects in his daily life, such as "spoon" and "car." Between 18 and 20 months, his pace will pick up as he acquires ten or more new words each day. If he's especially focused on learning to talk, he can add a new word to his vocabulary every 90 minutes — so watch your language!
During this phase your child may begin stringing two words together, making basic sentences such as "Carry me." Since his grammar skills are still undeveloped, you'll often hear odd constructions such as "Me go." He's understood for some time that he needs language, and he'll attempt to name new objects as he observes the world around him. He may overextend the words he already knows, though, so that all new animals are called "dogs," for example.
Starting around his second birthday, your child will begin using three-word sentences and singing simple tunes. As his sense of self matures, he'll use "me" to refer to himself, and he's likely to tell you what he likes and doesn't, what he thinks, and what he feels. You may hear him say, "David want juice" or "Baby throw," for instance. (Pronouns are tricky, so you may catch him avoiding them.)
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Day by day, we notice that she understands us more.
Asks her "Aricia, where's your milk bottle?" "Bring it to me to wash." She goes to wherever she threw her bottle and bring it to us.
Now she has another nickname - The Drawer Opener. She likes to help KZ when she needs to put the cutleries back in the drawer after drying them.
Something that surprises all of us is that she said ' 我不要 ' twice, (I didn't get to hear it myself. Tried asking her to say it again but she refused). We didn't expect chinese words coming out from her mouth, all the time I thought she's going to be an angmoh giah or a Japanese girl - since she first started saying wee bits of Japanese words/sounds apart from English.
Recognises animals, tested her on animals when I flash the cards.
(pics of)
dog - says "dor"
cat - says "cat" (followed by her signing and a cute meow...)
lion - says "ra i yon" ライオン(oops! that's Japanese)
tiger - says "tee ger"
rabbit - says "where bit"
wolf - says "dor" (dog - thinks it's dog)
elephant - says "zou" (Japanese)
sheep - says "shi" (thank goodness she didn't add a 't' behind, will sound like 'shit' to me) (then bleeps like a sheep)
hen - says "hen"
duck - says "duck duck"
horse - says "hor"
Sentences : Her recent sentenceis "wa s hare (wash hand). Weeks ago, before I realised she was learning to speak in 2 word sentences, she tried to tell me something. It was drizzling and she wanted to tell her talkative mummy who was talking to grandma that it started to rain. She said "mummy.....wain wain." And then started singing "Rain, Rain, Go Away.
Numbers - she's reading 1-10. But then sometimes she can recite all the way to 12 - coz' that's the floor we live. Sigh............. Strangers looked at this little girl who'll look at the number and then start saying the number. Sometimes she can say it backwards,but sometimes she'll continue the number forward instead of backwards. She's confused, I think.
That reminds me, a couple of weeks ago I was teaching her 6 : "Aricia, say six". My dear girl who was standing up; sat down. She thought I asked her to sit. I found it funny.
This evening at Compass Point, KZ told me she called one lady in Kiddy Palace. (According to KZ, that lady has a son who looks slightly older than Athena.) That lady was so oooo happy, she turned to look at Aricia & KZ. "she called me auntie? Papa (calling her husband) papa you see your son until now still don't call people. This girl so small call me..... How old is she?" Before KZ could answer her, Aricia ran away and KZ had to ask to be excused.
This evening, she put on a hairband on her own and asked us "nice nice?"
Aricia is a happy-go-lucky child. She finds enjoyment in everything she do. Whatever Athena did to entertain us; Aricia did it ten-folds. Wonder where all that energy come from. She's one naughty girl but かわい neh!
Asks her "Aricia, where's your milk bottle?" "Bring it to me to wash." She goes to wherever she threw her bottle and bring it to us.
Now she has another nickname - The Drawer Opener. She likes to help KZ when she needs to put the cutleries back in the drawer after drying them.
Something that surprises all of us is that she said ' 我不要 ' twice, (I didn't get to hear it myself. Tried asking her to say it again but she refused). We didn't expect chinese words coming out from her mouth, all the time I thought she's going to be an angmoh giah or a Japanese girl - since she first started saying wee bits of Japanese words/sounds apart from English.
Recognises animals, tested her on animals when I flash the cards.
(pics of)
dog - says "dor"
cat - says "cat" (followed by her signing and a cute meow...)
lion - says "ra i yon" ライオン(oops! that's Japanese)
tiger - says "tee ger"
rabbit - says "where bit"
wolf - says "dor" (dog - thinks it's dog)
elephant - says "zou" (Japanese)
sheep - says "shi" (thank goodness she didn't add a 't' behind, will sound like 'shit' to me) (then bleeps like a sheep)
hen - says "hen"
duck - says "duck duck"
horse - says "hor"
Sentences : Her recent sentenceis "wa s hare (wash hand). Weeks ago, before I realised she was learning to speak in 2 word sentences, she tried to tell me something. It was drizzling and she wanted to tell her talkative mummy who was talking to grandma that it started to rain. She said "mummy.....wain wain." And then started singing "Rain, Rain, Go Away.
Numbers - she's reading 1-10. But then sometimes she can recite all the way to 12 - coz' that's the floor we live. Sigh............. Strangers looked at this little girl who'll look at the number and then start saying the number. Sometimes she can say it backwards,but sometimes she'll continue the number forward instead of backwards. She's confused, I think.
That reminds me, a couple of weeks ago I was teaching her 6 : "Aricia, say six". My dear girl who was standing up; sat down. She thought I asked her to sit. I found it funny.
Singing : She's making efforts in singing the songs - always the last word of a sentence.
Eg. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
"Twing............li.......star
ha.............are!
Ah .................high!
Lie...............sky!"
If you notice my exclamation mark behind the sentences. Yup! She emphasise on those words very loud.
So far, she tried :
1) above song
2) Eensy Weensy Spider
3) Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes
4) Where Is The Beehive (learnt in Shichida. She remembers it and starts reciting to me, and stretches out her fingers to count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. And ends with a "ting" and hits her chest coz' I used to pretend the bees came to sting her.
5) Rain, Rain, Go Away
6) Old MacDonald Had A Farm
7)Teddy Bear (with a snore at the end of the song, also taught by me-hee!)
8) Skinamarinkidinkydink (sings the " I ler you" and pouts her lips with the 'you')
Little Miss Bye-Bye
When doing LM, we normally have this part where we'd turn the cards over and we'll say : eg. "Flower. Bye-bye flower. (point next card) balloon. Bye-bye balloon" etc.. I've overheard her saying to her cards before, "bye bye fau-er, bye bye. bye bye beh-lun, bye bye" and whatever picture cards she plays.
Now, it has become a habit of hers to say goodbye to everything. She says goodbye to the wall mural outside Athena's school, she says goodbye to the "cold cold" - cold storage in supermarkets, says goodbye to ice-cream, says goodbye to a dog, goes into lift says hello and goodbye to "ah-ti" (aunties) "ah-ger (uncles) when they're walking out.Eg. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
"Twing............li.......star
ha.............are!
Ah .................high!
Lie...............sky!"
If you notice my exclamation mark behind the sentences. Yup! She emphasise on those words very loud.
So far, she tried :
1) above song
2) Eensy Weensy Spider
3) Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes
4) Where Is The Beehive (learnt in Shichida. She remembers it and starts reciting to me, and stretches out her fingers to count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. And ends with a "ting" and hits her chest coz' I used to pretend the bees came to sting her.
5) Rain, Rain, Go Away
6) Old MacDonald Had A Farm
7)Teddy Bear (with a snore at the end of the song, also taught by me-hee!)
8) Skinamarinkidinkydink (sings the " I ler you" and pouts her lips with the 'you')
Little Miss Bye-Bye
When doing LM, we normally have this part where we'd turn the cards over and we'll say : eg. "Flower. Bye-bye flower. (point next card) balloon. Bye-bye balloon" etc.. I've overheard her saying to her cards before, "bye bye fau-er, bye bye. bye bye beh-lun, bye bye" and whatever picture cards she plays.
This evening at Compass Point, KZ told me she called one lady in Kiddy Palace. (According to KZ, that lady has a son who looks slightly older than Athena.) That lady was so oooo happy, she turned to look at Aricia & KZ. "she called me auntie? Papa (calling her husband) papa you see your son until now still don't call people. This girl so small call me..... How old is she?" Before KZ could answer her, Aricia ran away and KZ had to ask to be excused.
This evening, she put on a hairband on her own and asked us "nice nice?"
Aricia is a happy-go-lucky child. She finds enjoyment in everything she do. Whatever Athena did to entertain us; Aricia did it ten-folds. Wonder where all that energy come from. She's one naughty girl but かわい neh!
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