Sunday, October 19, 2008

Learning words

I know this is like the fifth post talking about experiencing Dylan's language learning but it's so fascinating to me. Recently, he's been trying to learn some new words but since they sound like other words he knows, he can't quite get them. For example, he knows aligator (although he says al-gee for aligator). Then, yesterday we were in an elevator and we were telling Dylan this is an elevator and he kept saying "al-gee." He was also getting two other similar words that he know mixed up - kitchen and chicken.

Dylan pretty much talks from the time he wakes up until he falls asleep. It's fun. It helps us to continually engage him and continually teach him new things. No full sentences yet but his vocab must be up in the 300s now.

1 comment:

Nancy said...

That's so fun! Amelie (and I think Violet) both said alligator for elevator. That's a cute one, for sure!