Learning Curve

Tian has been able to recognise words that we read to her and point at the pictures on books a few months back. Her understanding of words has expanded. She has been pronouncing words like 'apple', 'au-au' (dog), 'car', 'lorry', 'key', 'sh' (fish) while recognising the objects when she sees one up to 'to-to' (tomato), 'lion', 'co-co' (coconut), 'papa-ee' (papaya), 'baam' (van), 'bum-bum' (motorcycle).

We have been trying to teach her new words lately but she does not seem interested. Only then, I realised that she is now learning to listen to us rather than learning how to talk. We will ask her if she wants milk and she will respond with 'yao' ('want' in mandarin). If we tell her we are going out, she will get her socks and shoes for us to help her put on. When she hold a food container and wants us to open for her, she will say 'key' to indicate 'open'.

These few days, a few nouns that she could point correctly at the pictures are 'duck', 'egg', 'moon', 'orange', 'rabbit', 'xylophone', 'zip'.

This evening we told her to bring her 'apple book' (books containing apple and other pictures) from a basket at the corner of our living room, she really walked there and brought the book for my husband to read for her. After reading, we told her to put back to the basket and she really did it!