Bunchin diaries- Guwahati - language lab

In my previous avtar, I was in my company's training facility. I used to design courses for officers in desk jobs and also for employees in  sales function. Personality improvement sessions used to be a big hit with the trainees. Communication was one of the subjects and a hot favourite with me. I used to devour books which make such a simple subject(so I thought then) so varied and versatile a topic for study.

Trainees were given examples of communication techniques: speech, tone, eye contact, body language and gestures and ease of manner. These in totality make for an effective communication. Bunchin is a classic communication study in all its totality!He is able to pretty much  understand all that we tell him as I had mentioned in my earlier post.He is slowly catching up on communicating what he wants to say to others. He is all the time at work in his language lab, polishing his words. Yesterday he came up with 'anna'.It was so sweet to hear, it just popped up quite suddenly. I asked  D now he can say anna, who is his anna. She said two of her friends who have boys a little older than him, already call him their younger brother 'thambiya'.So he can now call them anna right royally.

He is gesturing with his hands all that he wants to say for which he is yet to find the words. He wants to say the train thatha is coming in is very big.So he stretches his hands wide and for good effect also rotates them His eyes widen and his face sports a huge grin. You dont have any doubt that he means BIG really BIG. He wants to have milk and just shows the bottle and when D comprehends and gives him his milk, he is so totally surprised and happy that he communicated something and mommy understood and acted immediately. D says that was a tough one and I cleared !!

He is trying to put his tongue out and get some words, la la la , for a start.

Adhi is his staple word. It could be a ball, it could be a toy. It is like a joker in a card game It can be fitted where a correct word is not available. To be charitable to the tiny kiddo  he is not propounding some abstract concept, but pointing to a ball and saying 'adhi'. So that should be easy to crack !

He saw his chinna patti on googletalk yesterday. He has been saying 'thi' to me for many days now. He know she is also 'thi'. But he said tha tha. There is a story behind this which he is trying to tell her. He got to say thatha while in chennai, but he was not getting patti. So my sister used to tell him say patti. He would say thatha and have a nice smile on his face. She would make it a game and keep repeating say patti and he would say thatha. This went on for an entire car ride to tambaram one afternoon.. He is now telling her by just saying tha tha, that he remembers that gamei. In fact he could also be telling her that he is quite game for that particular 'game' once more. Brevity the soul of wit!

D says he is on the brink of exploding into all sorts of sounds and words.She can see it all gurgling and bursting to come out!

Will make for another post, friends!