Like I have mentioned earlier, A stays at home with my in laws and has a good exposure to telugu, I tend to talk to him mostly in English and Kannada alternating between the two depending on the occasion. The point is I feel his Kannada speaking skills are hardly developed, he understands what I say in Kannada but doesnt know as many Kannada words as he knows in probably English or Telugu. The other day we were in the bathroom and he used his first kannada sentence "Mama, brush madtini" pointing at his toothbrush. A has never has he done that. Ever before. So that's a great step forward. On that note, I present his vocabulary at eighteen months:
Parts of the body:
kannu ( eyes)
moobu (nose)
kaal (leg)
kibi (ears)
People around him:
geetajji - My mom
dipajja - My dad
nishamaasi - My sis
papajja - My chacha
sujajji - My chachi
tata - My FIL
nani - My MIL
papa - His papa
mama, mummy, amma - Me :)
Others
Aplane (Aeroplane)
kinda (down) paina (up) baita (outside) dinchu ( put me down)
appa ( is his codeword if he gets hurt ) Sometimes he would hit us and show his hand and say 'appa'
Sentences have also made thier way into his tiny vocab: Here are few of them:
mama...Pease gimme mammu..
ninii bantu ( I m sleepy)
brush madtini ( I will brush ...my teeth in this case)
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