vocabulary, 22 months
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
Tokyo, 2009.12.02
The Boy's taken to calling me "Mike" 90% of the time, now.
He'll also casually throw around words in noun-verb pairs "Buddy nenne!" (Buddy is sleeping) and use Japanese term-words like "irimasen" (I don't need it).
He also picks up new words and sounds with amazing speed. One of the songs I've been listening to of late has a man with a European accent droning on as the vocal track. The fellow says things like "you're way off the pace" but with his accent it sounds like "you're wey aff zhe pehhs". So I go around saying that in the same accent and The Boy will chime in with "pehhs".
I'm glad that he's a vocal kid. And not yet a curser.