It’s hard to record a baby babbling. Whenever she talks the way you’d like to record her, the recording device (my MP3 player) is not at hand. And even when it is, as soon as she sees it, she shuts up and makes a grab for it. So I still haven’t managed to record her […]

While waiting to catch her saying “mommy” again, here’s a recording I made of her babbling away in the bathtub – hence the slightly hollow sound. Towards the end, you’ll also hear her splashing around. Just click on the bathtub:

Following our participation in a research project yesterday (see my previous post), we have been asked if our baby babbles in German or in French. (See also this article on the BBC website with a soundbite comparing the crying of German and French infants.) Here are some recent soundbites from our little girl, judge for yourselves if […]

Over a week after I first heard the “m” sound, I finally managed to record it: mama You hear “mama” at the 27′ mark, “papa” (or “baba”) follows right after. 🙂 happy mommy

  …”ba-ba”. Listen to her here. This time I didn’t even look for German words starting with “ba-” since daddy just gave me “-teau” again. Now it won’t be long before she calls him “pa-pa” (“daddy” in both our languages). Sadly, the “m” sound is trickier 🙁

Does “gaga” count as a word? If so, our baby girl has started speaking. Listen to her! I tried to think of German words beginning with “ga-” that she might have been attempting to say. Here is what I came up with: Gartenschlauch Garage Garnitur Garmisch-Partenkirchen   Then I asked Daddy which French words began […]