It seems almost overnight, my toddler has become bi-lingual. Not only does she have a rapidly expanding vocab of English words that she’s just starting to string into sentences – bye bye Mummy, night-night Daddy, more please, etc – but she’s actually started speaking in a completely different language.
I haven’t quite identified what it is yet – at first I thought it was Japanese, then ancient Aramaic, but now I suspect it’s her very own brand of Toddlerese. So here is what I’ve managed to decipher so far:
‘Ha’ – Yes
‘Ai Gar’ – Hello
‘Dar Dars’ – Thank You
‘Eh-Eh’ – I Love You
‘Eh-Eh’ – I Love You
‘Goi Goi’ – The Pinky Ponk from In The Night Garden
‘Daaaaaaaaa’ (not to be mistaken with Dar Dars) – Chuggington (eh???)
‘Weegle Weegle Weegles’ – No bloody idea… suggestions welcomed!
‘Daaaaaaaaa’ (not to be mistaken with Dar Dars) – Chuggington (eh???)
‘Weegle Weegle Weegles’ – No bloody idea… suggestions welcomed!
Do your little ones have their own bizarre take on the English language???
Oh, your daughter is ever sooooo sweeet!
Un fortunately, I cannot come with examples of her Toddlerese, as at home we are speaking Romanian and Hebrew. I’ve been teaching Maya English also. Since she’s juggling all this languages, she comes with funny combinations. For example, “wolf” – something around “voolp” – wolf + lup (the Romanian equivalent).Also, she forms the plural in Romanian with the Hebrew suffixes.
I know toddlers vocab is amazingly complicated! My younger one constantly says something at the moment that doesn’t resemble anything at all and I can’t even try and say it myself. The problem is that if I don’t work out what it is very soon there might be explosion of frustration… Wish me luck 🙂
I think my gorgeous and adventurous granddaughter is speaking in “tongues” :-). So that means she is either very gifted or you had better refer her to an exorcist LOL 8=}
yes, Little M grunts and points at what he wants. And sort of snorts when waving bye bye. funny how we learn to understand them!
Alone in Holy Land: I’ve always wondered how bilingual kids stop from mixing up the different languages. Most people have trouble learning just one language!!
Perfectly Happy Mum: Ha ha! I know what you mean – sometimes my little one comes out with the strangest sounds that I can’t even begin to repeat. Then I get stressed trying to figure it out through a process of elimination before she kicks off!!!
Lindsay: Maybe she’s speaking Maori – Cher Bro!!
Little M: It used to baffle me how Mums could understand their kids’ gibberish – but I’m getting quite fluent in it now.
My daughter has her own language but it’s starting to dissipate now that she’s talking more. She called her dummy ‘Ma’ her sippy cup: Nanu, orange is audi, pretzels are pickles, popsickles are also pickles. She also would speak in incomplete sentences but fill in the gaps with jibberish. Funny, we could always understand her. It’s going away now – I’m actually missing her language.
Ah! That’s sweet. My daughter used to hold up a small glitter ball and call herself ‘Tesco Baby’. She meant ‘Disco Baby’. She’s now 10 and I still remind her about it.
‘Cross the Pond: Awww, that’s quite sad that she’s losing her Toddlerese. As difficult as it can be to decipher sometimes, it’s soooooo adorable when they look at you really seriously, then spout a load of absolute gibberish that you’re supposed to understand.
2ambitiousmamas: LOL – that’s so cute! My one has yet to reach the stage of mixing her words up, but there’s bound to be some doozies!!