well hello out there all of you fans
fans and friends and family outing
outing you too bland i have here with
with the three month update of my
my daughter Arya Arya you want to
to say hello hello and
and get a little closer for everyone
everyone we kind of got the same haircut
haircut - I saw a haircut and I thought
thought to myself man that's a cool
cool haircut I want to get a haircut
haircut like that what
what do you think Aria you're going
going to be going to be internet famous
famous
famous maybe
maybe and this is actually a bib that
that her grandmother made for her
her japanese grandmother very
very nice they already can you say
say hello
say hello what
what are you just going to do a little
little bit anyway I thought I would
would just give an update because
because people were asking about her
her as well as you know friends and
and family i'd like to give pictures
pictures of people but nothing's as
as nice as being able to see your
your own video especially if you can't
can't see her cute self in person
person but she's doing well and she's
she's she doesn't really speak so
so much in the afternoon but in the
the morning when she wakes up she
she likes of rare and make lots of
of noise and are you don't have anything
anything to say not
not really well she's feeling a little
little quiet right now she also just
just woke up from a nap but also for
for the learners out there I
I figured I would just talk a little
little bit about how i'm speaking
speaking with her so right now i'm
i'm using my regular english speaking
speaking voice the same way i would
would be speaking with any other native
native speaker so she's getting to
to listen to the sound and the flow
flow of the English language and then
then in addition to that I just have
have you know times when I'm like
like reading a book or when we have
have you know i can show her a picture
picture because she really likes looking
looking at art you know that kind
kind of thing she likes designs so
so i can show her a picture of something
something and then get very specific
specific with the language i'm using
using so i can do nice
nice easy contrast like red ball green
green ball and as long as i'm showing
showing her something this is that
that comprehensible input so this
this is the things that you can understand
understand that she needs in order
order to start actually developing
developing you know good
good sense of grammar so she needs
needs both of these things one to
to get the overall sense and flow
flow of the language and the other
other to get the very specific things
things to understand the rules so
so she can start speaking because
because she will begin using those
those things or more as she begins
begins to speak you feeling sleepy
sleepy
sleepy hey
hey but also you know maybe sometimes
sometimes I'll speak to her in Japanese
Japanese or I'll speak to her in Chinese
Chinese i'll give her some chinese
chinese right now Aria
Aria change your but seems you could
could see what you have to I'm
I'm just kidding that wasn't Chinese
Chinese at all i just made that up
up but it brings me to a very interesting
interesting and important point about
about learning the language now back
back when I was a teacher yep
yep back when I was a teacher out
out in Japanese schools a lot of the
the students who actually most of
of them couldn't speak very well very
very confidently but I had a few students
students that used to make fun of
of me and the way I spoke so in the
the same way that I can kind of sound
sound like I speak Chinese I've actually
actually fooled a couple people with
with that before but if you're Chinese
Chinese speaker you'll know I'm not
not saying anything but i do like
like the sound of chinese and so if
if I was trying to learn it I
I can have like a pretty good sense
sense of how chinese sounds so what
what I'd encourage you to do as a
a learner is also kind of make fun
fun of English speakers maybe
maybe not necessarily to their face
face directly what
what there you go well she would haha
haha just starting to move around
around she's going to give me you
you getting excited anyway i recommend
recommend you do that as you're beginning
beginning to learn and you can start
start thinking more about how how
how the sound of the languages overall
overall while you're also learning
learning those don't know where while
while you're also learning those words
words and phrases well
well we better sign off but i just
just wanted to give you a quick you
you know
you know say
say hello all right who anyway
anyway we'll give her another update
update in a little while but if you
you have any questions for me about
about how we're practicing or anything
anything feel free to put them in
in the in the comments down below
below
below anyway
anyway by our as a back and we'll