Rachel’s vocabulary
I wanted to try count the number of words RACHEL can say (and mean them!). Perhaps I shall try… Let’s see:
These are words to address people around her - Daddy, Ma ma and mummy, Di di, Ah ma, Po po (my mum-in-law), shu shu (EDDIE) and shen shen, jiu jiu (JASON, my brother-in-law). Not forgetting RACHELand YI ZE. That’s eleven words. She has recently been able to name some of her schoolmates in the play-school, but I’m not going to count those…
She can say the letters of the alphabet and zero, count one to ten. She is able to name some animals - dog, cat, butterfly, elephant, frog, bear, duck, rabbit, bird, monkey, pig, donkey and horse. Some fruits - apple, orange and banana. That’s another twenty-seven.
The colour that she can say readily is blue. She knows book. When she is watching TV, she says Hi-five, Pooh Bear, Mickey Mouse and Minnie, Dibo, Johnny (of Johnny and The Sprites), Danny (of Danny and Daddy), Barney, Strawberry (of Strawberry Shortcake), Manny (of Handy Manny). She can name shapes - square, circle, triangle, star.
Some random words will include yes, no, hi, hello and bye, see you later, nose, sit, stand, clap, kick, sleep, carry, balloon, no more, car, bus, quack, eye, hug, cold, flower, shi shi (urinate), cake, milk, ball, baby, pain, bless you, tissue, shoe, etc. Think I’m missing out quite a bit but these are those that come to mind now, looking at her sitting in front of me. The total is about eighty-eight. Though it may be a little slow for a two-and-a-half year-old, I feel, I’m just quietly anticipating the time when she will able to talk to us a lot. Perhaps I will feel that she talks too much later. But that’s later…
