At all of 16 months and 23 days old, here’s a list of Yuyu’s vocabulary:
- Persons : Papa, Mama/Mommy, Ah Ma, Kong Kong, Jiu Jiu, Yeye, Mah Mah, Auntie, Uncle, Kor Kor, Che Che, Di Di, Baby, Babu Sing (yes, Babu singh!)
- Animals : Zebra, Penguin, Tiger, Rabbit, Lion, Bear, Cat, Dog, Giraff, Fish, Cockcroach, Owl (or maaooo..as he calls it in Mandarin), yang (sheep), horse….
- Fruits : (ba)nana, apple, orange
- Objects/nature : Moon, star, cloud, cloudy, rain, tree, leaves, plant,
- Objects/toys : balloon, ball, car
- Objects/kitchen : pot, wok, spoon, cup, kettle, rice, oil, onion, (to)matoe, chye (hokkien for veg), ladle,
- verbs : cook/cooking, walk, mop, iron (clothes), raining
- others : shoe, dirty, yakult, coco crunch, milk, scratch, pow pow/pow pow der (powder), no, yes, wire, up, upstairs, pour, wet wet, cover
- combined words : apple juice, put here, take out, water plant, eat rice, babu singh (hee, mama can’t get over this one), don’t touch, leaves drop, mop floor, make-up, why no, nianzhu (Mandarin for stick on)
