As usual, click the photo to see a larger version.Salma has built up a small but varied vocabulary so far. She can understand almost everything said to her both in English and Spanish, but her spoken vocabulary consists of:
English:
- Mama
- Baba
- cat
- how how (this means dog)
- gookoo (gecko)
- ball
- hello
- okay
- bubble (Mama blows soap bubbles for her often)
- bye
- frog (and rup rup for a frog sound)
- faaar (fire)
- ot! (hot)
- be be (baby)
- na na (banana)
- cor (car)
- fr (flower)
- kee kat (kitty cat)
- boon (balloon)
- beep beep (car horn)
- no (this is a recent one and a new favorite. If she's just talking she wags a finger and says no. If she's really upset it's a shriek: "Oh na-na-na-na-na-na-nooooooo!")
- gato
- agua
- hola
- oye ("listen". This is usually accompanied by tilting her head and pointing to her ear, for example when she hears thunder or a dog barking.)
- Most likely she has other Spanish words as well, but uses them with Señora Ani or Señora Rosa, not with me.
