The Language of Zuzu
Now offering classes in Zuzu 101, Conversational Zuzu, and Advanced Conversational Zuzu. Note that I am still a beginning speaker myself. Um, and note also that Iris’s house is clearly a lot cooler than our house.
Posted on February 4th, 2011 under Zuzu • Tags: conversation, talk, talking, video, Zuzu. • 
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February 5th, 2011 at 10:45 am
this reminds me of isaac circa 1999. i watched a video of him recently and i had forgotten his very particular isaacspeak. my favorite was the way he said “yeah,” which had a “v” sound in front of it every single time (actually, he would insert a “v” in front of lots of words for no particular reason). “vyeah.” his preschool teacher couldn’t understand a thing he said, but mark and i were fluent in isaac. also, he would point to the camera periodically and say, “what dat do?” and now he’s a filmmaker. i think zuzu looks pretty interested in the camera too (although she’s clearly more fixated on this iris person and especially her house).
February 5th, 2011 at 11:31 am
Vyeah! Love it!
That’s why I’m trying to video it all now, because I know I’ll forget it. I wish I’d had the presence of mind to video Eli during the one-month period when he called me “Bobby.”
February 5th, 2011 at 11:49 am
bobby! i love that — my nephew went through a long period when he called his dad, my brother adam, “daddum.” i know, it’s so hard to record everything you don’t want to forget, but even getting little bits on film (or written down) is worth it. so that you have movies to sit and watch and cry over after they’ve all left the nest. no, not really. or, kinda really.
February 5th, 2011 at 6:13 pm
Oh, Julie, I’m so glad you have started back on your website! What a little sweetheart Zuzu is! It’s so fun to get a sense of where they are in this life!
February 6th, 2011 at 7:05 pm
Oh, makes me realize how much I miss her!
February 6th, 2011 at 7:05 pm
And you!
February 7th, 2011 at 4:22 pm
Oh how SWEET! Is she edible or what?? I will have to show Iris and Miranda.
We still mourn the fact that Iris no longer pronounces “think” as “flink.” I flink so. I flink I can. What do you flink? You get the idea.
February 10th, 2011 at 9:55 am
Oh jules, how well I know that moment: “do you want to tell me a story? No.” Sigh. She’s making big progress by the looks of it, though! go Zuzu!
February 11th, 2011 at 4:53 pm
Oh, love “flink” also. Want to put “vyeah” and “flink” together somehow. Good cat names?
February 11th, 2011 at 9:54 pm
Absolutely adorable. In every way.
February 13th, 2011 at 9:54 pm
Flink and Vyeah make me miss coming up with names for the baby…Roxie no longer calls books “butts”. Read me a butt. She still gets the hip-hops (hiccups) though. I wish i had videotaped more.
February 14th, 2011 at 1:18 pm
Lisa, Zuzu says both of those! Well, kinda. It’s more like “read me a boot.” And she gets the hippups. And sometimes the hittups.
February 14th, 2011 at 1:19 pm
I also need to video her saying “mine” which she says as “mynch” and she says it when she really means “my.” Like, “that’s mynch boot.”
February 14th, 2011 at 1:49 pm
my niece stella says “me,” as in, “that’s me cup!” and “no, miles, that’s me cheese.” (miles = her dog)
February 14th, 2011 at 2:08 pm
Like Wallace from Wallace and Gromit!