1 00:00:00,069 --> 00:00:02,043 Hewo. 2 00:00:02,751 --> 00:00:04,750 My name's Wonnie. 3 00:00:04,937 --> 00:00:06,842 What's your name? 4 00:00:07,803 --> 00:00:08,442 What? 5 00:00:08,467 --> 00:00:10,375 My name's Ro-... 6 00:00:10,004 --> 00:00:11,208 What are you? 7 00:00:11,629 --> 00:00:12,246 My name's Ronnie. 8 00:00:12,271 --> 00:00:13,314 What's going on? 9 00:00:14,225 --> 00:00:19,763 I'm going to teach you something today that is very, very important, especially for the ladies. 10 00:00:22,921 --> 00:00:30,400 Sometimes I know you try and be very cute. 11 00:00:30,004 --> 00:00:31,302 Cool. 12 00:00:32,081 --> 00:00:38,239 But there comes a point where you have to stop trying to be cute and actually act like 13 00:00:38,239 --> 00:00:41,030 a proper woman, whatever that means. 14 00:00:41,791 --> 00:00:42,929 It's up to your interpretation. 15 00:00:42,929 --> 00:00:47,760 So I'm going to teach you about what's called "Baby Talk". 16 00:00:47,076 --> 00:00:53,585 So, baby talk is what I was just doing to you in the camera. 17 00:00:55,274 --> 00:01:03,538 It has to do with your facial expression-your eyes are bigger, you're smiley-and your intonation, 18 00:01:03,741 --> 00:01:06,668 as well as the vocabulary you lose... Use. 19 00:01:06,693 --> 00:01:14,940 So, when it is very, very good and fun and acceptable to use baby talk is if you are 20 00:01:14,094 --> 00:01:16,733 talking to a baby, yes. 21 00:01:17,009 --> 00:01:20,012 Children, not so much. 22 00:01:20,093 --> 00:01:25,154 There comes a point where your precious baby will become a child, and you need to actually 23 00:01:26,054 --> 00:01:29,081 start to speak to them like a normal person. 24 00:01:30,083 --> 00:01:33,097 Not like a dragon, but like a normal person. 25 00:01:33,387 --> 00:01:34,478 They grow out of baby talk. 26 00:01:35,043 --> 00:01:40,871 Also-I do this-we talk to our pets like they're babies. 27 00:01:41,618 --> 00:01:43,760 Oh, doggy want a boney? 28 00:01:43,076 --> 00:01:45,571 Hello, kitty-cat, what's going on? 29 00:01:46,028 --> 00:01:48,149 And the cat's like: "Ah, this is great." 30 00:01:48,426 --> 00:01:53,091 Dogs and cats probably think we're a little crazy, too, and they're like: "What? 31 00:01:53,116 --> 00:01:54,403 No, but I'm cute though." 32 00:01:54,428 --> 00:01:54,513 Cool. 33 00:01:55,303 --> 00:01:58,044 "Give me the bone. Yeah, I'm cute. Give me the bone." 34 00:01:58,069 --> 00:02:06,180 So, if you're talking to a baby or a young child, or a pet - cool. 35 00:02:06,018 --> 00:02:11,103 Also, if you're talking to your partner, not in class, but your partner, so your boyfriend, 36 00:02:12,003 --> 00:02:15,072 your girlfriend, your husband, your wife, your other boyfriend, okay 37 00:02:15,745 --> 00:02:19,682 - you will-I do-use baby talk. 38 00:02:19,707 --> 00:02:22,182 This makes us seem cute. 39 00:02:22,207 --> 00:02:23,207 Awesome. 40 00:02:23,232 --> 00:02:27,266 But we don't want to seem cute at a job interview. 41 00:02:27,646 --> 00:02:32,354 We don't want to go: "Hi. I'm Ronnie-wonnie. How are you today? He-he-he." 42 00:02:32,506 --> 00:02:38,291 You're not going to get the job, and people might think you're a little strange. 43 00:02:38,316 --> 00:02:45,665 So baby talk is good for three people, three situations. 44 00:02:45,775 --> 00:02:48,430 Other than that, don't use it. 45 00:02:48,758 --> 00:02:53,825 You probably know some words that are baby talk or the intonation, but maybe there are 46 00:02:53,085 --> 00:02:54,182 some words that will surprise you. 47 00:02:55,082 --> 00:02:57,028 The number one are... 48 00:02:58,352 --> 00:03:02,048 One and two or the top ones are "mommy" and "daddy". 49 00:03:02,073 --> 00:03:10,427 So, I hear a lot of grown men say: "My mommy works in the mall." 50 00:03:11,416 --> 00:03:16,525 And girls say: "My... My daddy gave me a horse." 51 00:03:17,211 --> 00:03:23,240 Okay, maybe your daddy did give you a horse, but please, ladies and gentlemen who are adults: 52 00:03:23,024 --> 00:03:26,578 "mommy" and "daddy" are children's words. 53 00:03:26,819 --> 00:03:34,905 If a grown man says: "I love my mommy", we're going to think some strange things are happening 54 00:03:34,093 --> 00:03:35,804 with you and your mommy. 55 00:03:36,666 --> 00:03:42,022 As well, ladies, if you say: "My daddy is coming to see me tomorrow night", 56 00:03:42,053 --> 00:03:46,130 we're getting the wrong idea of what you're doing with your parents. 57 00:03:46,013 --> 00:03:49,795 So: "mommy" and "daddy" are only for children. 58 00:03:50,013 --> 00:03:51,759 What you're going to say is... 59 00:03:51,901 --> 00:03:53,120 Do you know? 60 00:03:53,012 --> 00:03:55,847 "Mom, mom, dad", good. 61 00:03:56,014 --> 00:03:59,939 We shorten this to: "mom". 62 00:04:00,582 --> 00:04:08,308 If you're learning English in the UK, they spell it: "mum", but they spell it with a "u". 63 00:04:08,873 --> 00:04:10,122 And "dad"... 64 00:04:10,073 --> 00:04:12,287 Sorry. "Daddy" becomes "dad". 65 00:04:12,969 --> 00:04:16,970 This is casually how we talk about our mom and dad. 66 00:04:17,012 --> 00:04:18,643 More formal... 67 00:04:19,009 --> 00:04:21,320 Again, this is baby talk. 68 00:04:21,032 --> 00:04:25,124 More formal we can say: "mother" and "father". 69 00:04:26,024 --> 00:04:35,556 So, it doesn't really matter which one you use, "dad" or "father", "mom" or "mother", 70 00:04:36,022 --> 00:04:40,025 just please don't say "mommy" and "daddy". 71 00:04:40,394 --> 00:04:47,815 It makes you sound like you're a little princess or that you have a very strange relationship 72 00:04:47,084 --> 00:04:48,176 with your mother and father. 73 00:04:50,128 --> 00:04:51,675 Yeah, not too good. 74 00:04:51,007 --> 00:04:57,376 So, "father" is formal and so is "mother". 75 00:05:00,017 --> 00:05:05,064 All right. When I first started the video, I said: "My name is Wonnie." 76 00:05:05,064 --> 00:05:05,713 Well, that's not my name. 77 00:05:06,314 --> 00:05:10,665 My name's Ronnie, but children have a hard time pronunci-... 78 00:05:10,069 --> 00:05:11,134 [Laughs] Pronunciating, like me. 79 00:05:12,034 --> 00:05:15,063 They have a hard time saying certain letters. 80 00:05:15,063 --> 00:05:16,151 For example, "r". 81 00:05:17,923 --> 00:05:20,436 Do you have a hard time saying "r" as well? 82 00:05:20,461 --> 00:05:22,380 Cool. See? You're learning. 83 00:05:22,405 --> 00:05:26,717 "R" is very difficult for babies to say, so don't feel bad. 84 00:05:26,881 --> 00:05:29,806 They're learning how to get the "r" out. 85 00:05:29,831 --> 00:05:33,745 So, instead of saying "r", they're going to say "w". 86 00:05:33,077 --> 00:05:38,130 So, you will hear in TV shows, when people say: 87 00:05:38,848 --> 00:05:41,342 "Aw, you're just a widdle boy". 88 00:05:41,367 --> 00:05:48,225 "Widdle" is a replacement for "l" in this case or "little". 89 00:05:48,025 --> 00:05:52,914 So, we would say: "little", but they say: "widdle". 90 00:05:53,139 --> 00:05:55,040 "Oh, just a widdle boy." 91 00:05:55,493 --> 00:06:00,310 If you can't say the "r", it might sound like: "riddle", but you say: "widdle". 92 00:06:00,801 --> 00:06:09,290 I used to do this, when I was a child I could not say "r", so I said "d", I said: "budder". 93 00:06:09,029 --> 00:06:12,373 I called my brother: "my budder". 94 00:06:12,659 --> 00:06:19,732 Now, "butter" in the pronunciation that you have here sounds like the delicious spread 95 00:06:20,414 --> 00:06:22,515 you put on toast and vegetables. 96 00:06:22,054 --> 00:06:26,132 So I would say: "Where's my butter?" 97 00:06:28,252 --> 00:06:35,100 Butter is delicious, so maybe I just really wanted butter, my parents got confused. 98 00:06:35,253 --> 00:06:36,345 Probably that's what happened. 99 00:06:37,198 --> 00:06:45,339 So, you'll also notice that in English pronunciation, in American and Canadian pronunciation at least, 100 00:06:45,671 --> 00:06:48,679 if it's a "t" sound we usually sound it like a "d". 101 00:06:48,776 --> 00:06:53,517 So, in Canada and America we don't say: "butter", we say: "budder". 102 00:06:53,948 --> 00:06:58,000 And we don't say: "little", we say: "liddle". 103 00:06:58,493 --> 00:06:59,935 That'll be another lesson, though. 104 00:06:59,096 --> 00:07:00,095 We'll get back to that. 105 00:07:00,984 --> 00:07:05,115 So, how do we make baby talk? 106 00:07:05,014 --> 00:07:07,022 How do we make baby words? 107 00:07:07,245 --> 00:07:10,041 We have two ways to do it. 108 00:07:10,184 --> 00:07:14,817 One of them is we double the sounds. 109 00:07:14,842 --> 00:07:18,100 So: "poo" is... 110 00:07:18,241 --> 00:07:20,762 Oh, I'm very good at drawing poo. 111 00:07:21,793 --> 00:07:23,760 Maybe you say: "number two". 112 00:07:24,818 --> 00:07:27,381 You can call it also "shit" in slang. 113 00:07:27,406 --> 00:07:33,415 So, as an adult if you wanted to, you could say: "shit", some people get mad at that word. 114 00:07:33,521 --> 00:07:37,557 You can say: "number two", or you can say: "poo". 115 00:07:38,208 --> 00:07:41,305 But for children, we double it, we say: "poo-poo". 116 00:07:42,241 --> 00:07:48,138 So you will hear maybe parents saying to the baby: "Do you have to go poo-poo? 117 00:07:48,474 --> 00:07:49,150 Do you have to...? 118 00:07:49,015 --> 00:07:51,389 Did you make a poo-poo in your...?" 119 00:07:51,653 --> 00:07:54,449 The baby's probably like: "I just shat myself, mom. 120 00:07:54,449 --> 00:07:56,148 Can you change my diapers, please?" 121 00:07:56,173 --> 00:07:58,218 Also we have: "pee-pee". 122 00:07:58,648 --> 00:08:01,740 Okay? Pee-pee is urine. 123 00:08:02,738 --> 00:08:06,424 So you can say: "Oh, excuse me. I have to pee." 124 00:08:06,478 --> 00:08:07,478 Very slang. 125 00:08:07,503 --> 00:08:08,569 "I have to use the toilet." 126 00:08:09,419 --> 00:08:11,943 Or we say "number one". 127 00:08:12,369 --> 00:08:16,525 So to make this an adult word, we just take off the second word. 128 00:08:16,055 --> 00:08:20,754 One of my favourites, always makes me giggle is "bum-bum". 129 00:08:21,521 --> 00:08:24,370 I think when I was a kid my mom said "bum-bum" a lot. 130 00:08:24,575 --> 00:08:28,440 I know she said "bumbaleerie", which is even too funny for me to say. 131 00:08:28,465 --> 00:08:32,970 "Bum-bum" is the ass. 132 00:08:32,995 --> 00:08:33,650 It's your ass. 133 00:08:33,065 --> 00:08:35,073 It's... I don't even know another polite way to say it. 134 00:08:36,045 --> 00:08:41,561 You can say: "bum", but for children we say: "bum-bum" and it's funny. 135 00:08:42,122 --> 00:08:44,200 In slang, we say: "ass". 136 00:08:44,995 --> 00:08:46,049 So you can say to someone: "Hey. 137 00:08:46,056 --> 00:08:47,056 Nice bum-bum." 138 00:08:47,585 --> 00:08:49,132 And they're like: "Thank you." Okay? 139 00:08:49,157 --> 00:08:50,157 Don't be rude. 140 00:08:50,182 --> 00:08:51,182 Be cute. 141 00:08:51,803 --> 00:08:56,928 Then we have a boy part and we have the girl part. 142 00:08:56,953 --> 00:09:03,774 So we for some reason do not want to tell children that they have a penis. 143 00:09:04,497 --> 00:09:07,460 We call it a "wee-wee". 144 00:09:07,898 --> 00:09:08,683 Mm-hmm. 145 00:09:08,875 --> 00:09:09,973 So you might hear someone say... 146 00:09:11,054 --> 00:09:14,420 A little boy might say: "I went pee-pee with my wee-wee." 147 00:09:14,042 --> 00:09:16,609 And you're like: "That's cool, kid. Awesome." 148 00:09:17,012 --> 00:09:18,109 I just took a piss. 149 00:09:19,382 --> 00:09:24,457 And then the girl part, the vagina, of course we could not tell the children it's a vagina, 150 00:09:25,157 --> 00:09:27,251 some people might call a "woo-woo". 151 00:09:28,026 --> 00:09:29,247 Woohoo. 152 00:09:29,658 --> 00:09:35,545 Not too sure where the "woo" came in, but I've also seen things on the internet where 153 00:09:35,057 --> 00:09:37,496 they are called minis, 154 00:09:38,413 --> 00:09:40,407 like Minnie Mouse. 155 00:09:40,831 --> 00:09:43,715 Very strange things that I've seen on the internet 156 00:09:43,893 --> 00:09:45,492 about words... 157 00:09:45,886 --> 00:09:46,886 For the lesson. 158 00:09:46,911 --> 00:09:52,935 I was researching about the lesson about what words we use for children for vaginas, I promise, 159 00:09:53,035 --> 00:09:54,128 and I'm making a video about it. 160 00:09:55,005 --> 00:09:56,736 We also have this expression... 161 00:09:57,231 --> 00:09:58,675 We have expressions that we use. 162 00:09:58,767 --> 00:10:00,820 We say: "Oopsie daisy! 163 00:10:01,523 --> 00:10:02,792 Oopsie daisy!" 164 00:10:02,817 --> 00:10:08,318 So if you have a child and your child falls over or you drop something, and you don't 165 00:10:08,343 --> 00:10:12,438 want to say: "Shit", people will say: "Oopsie daisy." 166 00:10:13,318 --> 00:10:17,327 As we get older, we just say: "Shit" or "Oops". 167 00:10:18,545 --> 00:10:24,660 So, if you want to be not as slang as Ronnie is, you can just say: "Oops". 168 00:10:24,939 --> 00:10:27,982 "Oopsie daisy" is very childish. 169 00:10:28,599 --> 00:10:32,771 So when we talk about this, we don't want to seem like a child. 170 00:10:32,796 --> 00:10:34,953 We want to seem like mature adults. 171 00:10:35,198 --> 00:10:36,825 Seem like, yeah. 172 00:10:36,085 --> 00:10:37,085 Okay. 173 00:10:37,085 --> 00:10:39,294 "Jammies", oo, I like this word. 174 00:10:40,266 --> 00:10:41,358 Put on your jammy-jammies. 175 00:10:42,035 --> 00:10:47,119 Jammies are the baby or the childish word for PJs. 176 00:10:48,019 --> 00:10:52,027 Now, you might say: "I don't get it, Ronnie, what are PJs?" 177 00:10:53,019 --> 00:10:57,797 What do you think PJs, p-jammies, pajamas. 178 00:10:57,822 --> 00:11:04,430 Woohoo. So, the clothes that we wear at nighttime to go to bed, we call them... 179 00:11:04,043 --> 00:11:06,199 For children we call them jammies. 180 00:11:06,611 --> 00:11:12,188 In short form we call them "PJs" and the long word is "pajamas". 181 00:11:13,037 --> 00:11:18,845 When you jump into your beddy-bye with your jammies, you are going to beddy-bye. 182 00:11:19,202 --> 00:11:26,153 So, "beddy-bye" is your bed or it's bedtime. 183 00:11:26,266 --> 00:11:35,345 And the other way that we make words are we simply add a "y" to some existing words. 184 00:11:35,037 --> 00:11:42,095 So, you've got your jammies on, you're in your beddy-byes, and you need your blankey. 185 00:11:42,095 --> 00:11:46,130 "Blankey" is the child's word for blanket. 186 00:11:47,001 --> 00:11:53,756 You might see children with a blankey, and it's their security blanket, but they call 187 00:11:53,079 --> 00:11:56,092 it "blankey" or "baba" sometimes. 188 00:11:56,092 --> 00:11:58,804 Depends on the age of the child. 189 00:12:00,227 --> 00:12:04,248 Children really like animals, but they can't... 190 00:12:04,462 --> 00:12:10,029 I guess they just can't say "horse", so they say: "horsey" or "doggy". 191 00:12:10,054 --> 00:12:11,988 Now, we say this sometimes. 192 00:12:12,037 --> 00:12:16,092 We say: "kitty" or they say "kitty", and they say "ducky". 193 00:12:16,092 --> 00:12:17,475 So maybe you're... 194 00:12:18,412 --> 00:12:23,216 Someone you know has a rubber ducky-quack, quack-and there's a song about a duck. 195 00:12:23,241 --> 00:12:24,250 It's amazing. 196 00:12:24,065 --> 00:12:25,065 Can you quack? 197 00:12:25,675 --> 00:12:26,880 Can you quack like a duck? 198 00:12:26,905 --> 00:12:31,664 So, the way that we make the words cute is we add a "y" to them. 199 00:12:31,087 --> 00:12:34,432 We usually use it with animals, I don't know why. 200 00:12:35,279 --> 00:12:46,302 So, very important to understand that it's okay to use these childish words, 201 00:12:47,119 --> 00:12:53,440 but you have to know when to use them, talking to children, talking to dogs or animals. 202 00:12:53,044 --> 00:12:54,112 "Hey, look at the doggy." 203 00:12:55,012 --> 00:12:57,434 The dog's like: "That's a duck." Okay? 204 00:12:57,757 --> 00:13:01,069 And if you're speaking to your partner. 205 00:13:01,022 --> 00:13:02,445 It's cool. 206 00:13:02,792 --> 00:13:08,207 Please be careful, don't use them in job interviews, don't use them when you first meet people 207 00:13:08,363 --> 00:13:12,579 because you will seem very childish and that's not cool. 208 00:13:12,604 --> 00:13:13,368 Okay? 209 00:13:13,393 --> 00:13:14,709 Beddy-byes for Wonnie. 210 00:13:14,734 --> 00:13:15,781 Bye-bye.