22 January 2007 ~ 3 Comments

A conversation with Michelle (aged 2 years, 7 months)

Michelle

What follows is a short conversation with Michelle (translated into English from the mixture of Japanese and English we use).

M: What’s that?
I: It’s a list of domains
M: do-meins??
I: Yeah, a list of domain names I have.
M: hmm…

after a few seconds of thinking

M: oh, domains! yeah yeah domains.

Of course, she doesn’t know what domains are yet, but it is amazing that she can make conversation and fake understanding so naturally. I only wish I could do the same in Japanese when speaking with my colleagues :)

3 Responses to “A conversation with Michelle (aged 2 years, 7 months)”

  1. Michael 22 January 2007 at 2:38 pm Permalink

    hahah … thats very cool .. shes gonna be extremly smart when she grows up i think.

    well keep teaching her!! i gotta revise.. lol

  2. Shay 22 January 2007 at 2:57 pm Permalink

    hahah thats great…I’m impressed.

    I don’t know when I learned how to do that but I do know that’ll come in handy for her ;) . ^^

  3. Ian Cheung 23 January 2007 at 9:49 pm Permalink

    Yeah, I sometimes try to fake understanding when osaka obaasan talk to me while we wait for the bus. Not half as well though, and because I look Japanese, they just think I am extremely slow ;)


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