1 00:00:00,690 --> 00:00:02,663 Hewo. 1 00:00:02,750 --> 00:00:04,750 My name's Wonnie. 1 00:00:04,937 --> 00:00:06,842 What's your name? 1 00:00:07,802 --> 00:00:08,442 What? 1 00:00:08,467 --> 00:00:10,375 My name's Ro-... 1 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:11,604 What are you? 1 00:00:11,628 --> 00:00:12,245 My name's Ronnie. 1 00:00:12,271 --> 00:00:13,701 What's going on? 1 00:00:14,224 --> 00:00:19,762 I'm going to teach you something today that is very, very important, especially for the ladies. 1 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:30,399 Sometimes I know you try and be very cute. 1 00:00:30,399 --> 00:00:31,698 Cool. 1 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 1 00:00:38,238 --> 00:00:41,029 a proper woman, whatever that means. 1 00:00:41,790 --> 00:00:42,928 It's up to your interpretation. 1 00:00:42,929 --> 00:00:47,760 So I'm going to teach you about what's called "Baby Talk". 1 00:00:47,759 --> 00:00:54,268 So, baby talk is what I was just doing to you in the camera. 1 00:00:55,274 --> 00:01:03,537 It has to do with your facial expression-your eyes are bigger, you're smiley-and your intonation, 1 00:01:03,740 --> 00:01:06,668 as well as the vocabulary you lose... Use. 1 00:01:06,692 --> 00:01:14,939 So, when it is very, very good and fun and acceptable to use baby talk is if you are 1 00:01:14,939 --> 00:01:17,578 talking to a baby, yes. 1 00:01:17,900 --> 00:01:20,930 Children, not so much. 1 00:01:20,930 --> 00:01:26,540 There comes a point where your precious baby will become a child, and you need to actually 1 00:01:26,540 --> 00:01:29,810 start to speak to them like a normal person. 1 00:01:30,082 --> 00:01:33,222 Not like a dragon, but like a normal person. 1 00:01:33,387 --> 00:01:35,296 They grow out of baby talk. 1 00:01:35,430 --> 00:01:41,258 Also-I do this-we talk to our pets like they're babies. 1 00:01:41,617 --> 00:01:43,759 Oh, doggy want a boney? 1 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:46,255 Hello, kitty-cat, what's going on? 1 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:48,400 And the cat's like: "Ah, this is great." 1 00:01:48,426 --> 00:01:53,091 Dogs and cats probably think we're a little crazy, too, and they're like: "What? 1 00:01:53,115 --> 00:01:54,403 No, but I'm cute though." 1 00:01:54,427 --> 00:01:55,277 Cool. 1 00:01:55,302 --> 00:01:58,043 "Give me the bone. Yeah, I'm cute. Give me the bone." 1 00:01:58,069 --> 00:02:06,180 So, if you're talking to a baby or a young child, or a pet - cool. 1 00:02:06,180 --> 00:02:12,030 Also, if you're talking to your partner, not in class, but your partner, so your boyfriend, 1 00:02:12,030 --> 00:02:15,719 your girlfriend, your husband, your wife, your other boyfriend, okay 1 00:02:15,745 --> 00:02:19,682 - you will-I do-use baby talk. 1 00:02:19,706 --> 00:02:22,181 This makes us seem cute. 1 00:02:22,206 --> 00:02:23,206 Awesome. 1 00:02:23,231 --> 00:02:27,572 But we don't want to seem cute at a job interview. 1 00:02:27,645 --> 00:02:32,353 We don't want to go: "Hi. I'm Ronnie-wonnie. How are you today? He-he-he." 1 00:02:32,506 --> 00:02:38,290 You're not going to get the job, and people might think you're a little strange. 1 00:02:38,316 --> 00:02:45,664 So baby talk is good for three people, three situations. 1 00:02:45,775 --> 00:02:48,430 Other than that, don't use it. 1 00:02:48,758 --> 00:02:53,825 You probably know some words that are baby talk or the intonation, but maybe there are 1 00:02:53,849 --> 00:02:55,819 some words that will surprise you. 1 00:02:55,819 --> 00:02:57,765 The number one are... 1 00:02:58,352 --> 00:03:02,048 One and two or the top ones are "mommy" and "daddy". 1 00:03:02,073 --> 00:03:10,427 So, I hear a lot of grown men say: "My mommy works in the mall." 1 00:03:11,415 --> 00:03:16,525 And girls say: "My... My daddy gave me a horse." 1 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: 1 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:26,794 "mommy" and "daddy" are children's words. 1 00:03:26,818 --> 00:03:34,905 If a grown man says: "I love my mommy", we're going to think some strange things are happening 1 00:03:34,930 --> 00:03:36,641 with you and your mommy. 1 00:03:36,665 --> 00:03:42,021 As well, ladies, if you say: "My daddy is coming to see me tomorrow night", 1 00:03:42,052 --> 00:03:46,129 we're getting the wrong idea of what you're doing with your parents. 1 00:03:46,129 --> 00:03:49,912 So: "mommy" and "daddy" are only for children. 1 00:03:50,129 --> 00:03:51,876 What you're going to say is... 1 00:03:51,901 --> 00:03:53,120 Do you know? 1 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:55,955 "Mom, mom, dad", good. 1 00:03:56,139 --> 00:04:00,064 We shorten this to: "mom". 1 00:04:00,581 --> 00:04:08,307 If you're learning English in the UK, they spell it: "mum", but they spell it with a "u". 1 00:04:08,872 --> 00:04:10,121 And "dad"... 1 00:04:10,729 --> 00:04:12,943 Sorry. "Daddy" becomes "dad". 1 00:04:12,968 --> 00:04:16,978 This is casually how we talk about our mom and dad. 1 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:18,750 More formal... 1 00:04:19,009 --> 00:04:21,319 Again, this is baby talk. 1 00:04:21,319 --> 00:04:26,240 More formal we can say: "mother" and "father". 1 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:35,771 So, it doesn't really matter which one you use, "dad" or "father", "mom" or "mother", 1 00:04:36,021 --> 00:04:40,051 just please don't say "mommy" and "daddy". 1 00:04:40,394 --> 00:04:47,814 It makes you sound like you're a little princess or that you have a very strange relationship 1 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:49,759 with your mother and father. 1 00:04:50,127 --> 00:04:51,675 Yeah, not too good. 1 00:04:51,699 --> 00:04:58,068 So, "father" is formal and so is "mother". 1 00:05:00,170 --> 00:05:05,640 All right. When I first started the video, I said: "My name is Wonnie." 1 00:05:05,639 --> 00:05:06,288 Well, that's not my name. 1 00:05:06,314 --> 00:05:10,665 My name's Ronnie, but children have a hard time pronunci-... 1 00:05:10,689 --> 00:05:12,339 [Laughs] Pronunciating, like me. 1 00:05:12,339 --> 00:05:15,629 They have a hard time saying certain letters. 1 00:05:15,629 --> 00:05:17,509 For example, "r". 1 00:05:17,923 --> 00:05:20,435 Do you have a hard time saying "r" as well? 1 00:05:20,461 --> 00:05:22,379 Cool. See? You're learning. 1 00:05:22,404 --> 00:05:26,716 "R" is very difficult for babies to say, so don't feel bad. 1 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,805 They're learning how to get the "r" out. 1 00:05:29,831 --> 00:05:33,745 So, instead of saying "r", they're going to say "w". 1 00:05:33,769 --> 00:05:38,822 So, you will hear in TV shows, when people say: 1 00:05:38,848 --> 00:05:41,342 "Aw, you're just a widdle boy". 1 00:05:41,367 --> 00:05:48,225 "Widdle" is a replacement for "l" in this case or "little". 1 00:05:48,250 --> 00:05:53,139 So, we would say: "little", but they say: "widdle". 1 00:05:53,139 --> 00:05:55,040 "Oh, just a widdle boy." 1 00:05:55,492 --> 00:06:00,310 If you can't say the "r", it might sound like: "riddle", but you say: "widdle". 1 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:09,289 I used to do this, when I was a child I could not say "r", so I said "d", I said: "budder". 1 00:06:09,290 --> 00:06:12,634 I called my brother: "my budder". 1 00:06:12,658 --> 00:06:20,389 Now, "butter" in the pronunciation that you have here sounds like the delicious spread 1 00:06:20,413 --> 00:06:22,514 you put on toast and vegetables. 1 00:06:22,540 --> 00:06:26,617 So I would say: "Where's my butter?" 1 00:06:28,252 --> 00:06:35,100 Butter is delicious, so maybe I just really wanted butter, my parents got confused. 1 00:06:35,252 --> 00:06:37,173 Probably that's what happened. 1 00:06:37,197 --> 00:06:45,338 So, you'll also notice that in English pronunciation, in American and Canadian pronunciation at least, 1 00:06:45,670 --> 00:06:48,750 if it's a "t" sound we usually sound it like a "d". 1 00:06:48,776 --> 00:06:53,516 So, in Canada and America we don't say: "butter", we say: "budder". 1 00:06:53,947 --> 00:06:58,467 And we don't say: "little", we say: "liddle". 1 00:06:58,492 --> 00:06:59,935 That'll be another lesson, though. 1 00:06:59,959 --> 00:07:00,959 We'll get back to that. 1 00:07:00,983 --> 00:07:05,115 So, how do we make baby talk? 1 00:07:05,139 --> 00:07:07,219 How do we make baby words? 1 00:07:07,245 --> 00:07:10,040 We have two ways to do it. 1 00:07:10,184 --> 00:07:14,817 One of them is we double the sounds. 1 00:07:14,841 --> 00:07:18,099 So: "poo" is... 1 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:20,762 Oh, I'm very good at drawing poo. 1 00:07:21,793 --> 00:07:23,759 Maybe you say: "number two". 1 00:07:24,817 --> 00:07:27,380 You can call it also "shit" in slang. 1 00:07:27,406 --> 00:07:33,495 So, as an adult if you wanted to, you could say: "shit", some people get mad at that word. 1 00:07:33,521 --> 00:07:37,557 You can say: "number two", or you can say: "poo". 1 00:07:38,208 --> 00:07:42,178 But for children, we double it, we say: "poo-poo". 1 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:48,137 So you will hear maybe parents saying to the baby: "Do you have to go poo-poo? 1 00:07:48,473 --> 00:07:49,149 Do you have to...? 1 00:07:49,149 --> 00:07:51,524 Did you make a poo-poo in your...?" 1 00:07:51,653 --> 00:07:54,449 The baby's probably like: "I just shat myself, mom. 1 00:07:54,449 --> 00:07:56,148 Can you change my diapers, please?" 1 00:07:56,173 --> 00:07:58,622 Also we have: "pee-pee". 1 00:07:58,648 --> 00:08:01,740 Okay? Pee-pee is urine. 1 00:08:02,737 --> 00:08:06,423 So you can say: "Oh, excuse me. I have to pee." 1 00:08:06,478 --> 00:08:07,478 Very slang. 1 00:08:07,502 --> 00:08:09,163 "I have to use the toilet." 1 00:08:09,418 --> 00:08:11,942 Or we say "number one". 1 00:08:12,369 --> 00:08:16,525 So to make this an adult word, we just take off the second word. 1 00:08:16,550 --> 00:08:21,249 One of my favourites, always makes me giggle is "bum-bum". 1 00:08:21,521 --> 00:08:24,370 I think when I was a kid my mom said "bum-bum" a lot. 1 00:08:24,574 --> 00:08:28,439 I know she said "bumbaleerie", which is even too funny for me to say. 1 00:08:28,464 --> 00:08:32,970 "Bum-bum" is the ass. 1 00:08:32,995 --> 00:08:33,649 It's your ass. 1 00:08:33,649 --> 00:08:36,449 It's... I don't even know another polite way to say it. 1 00:08:36,450 --> 00:08:41,966 You can say: "bum", but for children we say: "bum-bum" and it's funny. 1 00:08:42,121 --> 00:08:44,901 In slang, we say: "ass". 1 00:08:44,995 --> 00:08:46,534 So you can say to someone: "Hey. 1 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:47,559 Nice bum-bum." 1 00:08:47,585 --> 00:08:49,132 And they're like: "Thank you." Okay? 1 00:08:49,157 --> 00:08:50,157 Don't be rude. 1 00:08:50,182 --> 00:08:51,182 Be cute. 1 00:08:51,802 --> 00:08:56,927 Then we have a boy part and we have the girl part. 1 00:08:56,952 --> 00:09:03,774 So we for some reason do not want to tell children that they have a penis. 1 00:09:04,496 --> 00:09:07,459 We call it a "wee-wee". 1 00:09:07,898 --> 00:09:08,682 Mm-hmm. 1 00:09:08,875 --> 00:09:10,855 So you might hear someone say... 1 00:09:11,053 --> 00:09:14,419 A little boy might say: "I went pee-pee with my wee-wee." 1 00:09:14,419 --> 00:09:16,986 And you're like: "That's cool, kid. Awesome." 1 00:09:17,011 --> 00:09:18,981 I just took a piss. 1 00:09:19,381 --> 00:09:25,131 And then the girl part, the vagina, of course we could not tell the children it's a vagina, 1 00:09:25,157 --> 00:09:28,097 some people might call a "woo-woo". 1 00:09:28,259 --> 00:09:29,480 Woohoo. 1 00:09:29,658 --> 00:09:35,544 Not too sure where the "woo" came in, but I've also seen things on the internet where 1 00:09:35,570 --> 00:09:38,009 they are called minis, 1 00:09:38,413 --> 00:09:40,407 like Minnie Mouse. 1 00:09:40,831 --> 00:09:43,715 Very strange things that I've seen on the internet 1 00:09:43,893 --> 00:09:45,492 about words... 1 00:09:45,885 --> 00:09:46,885 For the lesson. 1 00:09:46,910 --> 00:09:53,150 I was researching about the lesson about what words we use for children for vaginas, I promise, 1 00:09:53,350 --> 00:09:55,279 and I'm making a video about it. 1 00:09:55,500 --> 00:09:57,230 We also have this expression... 1 00:09:57,230 --> 00:09:58,674 We have expressions that we use. 1 00:09:58,767 --> 00:10:01,297 We say: "Oopsie daisy! 1 00:10:01,523 --> 00:10:02,792 Oopsie daisy!" 1 00:10:02,817 --> 00:10:08,317 So if you have a child and your child falls over or you drop something, and you don't 1 00:10:08,342 --> 00:10:13,293 want to say: "Shit", people will say: "Oopsie daisy." 1 00:10:13,317 --> 00:10:18,217 As we get older, we just say: "Shit" or "Oops". 1 00:10:18,544 --> 00:10:24,659 So, if you want to be not as slang as Ronnie is, you can just say: "Oops". 1 00:10:24,938 --> 00:10:28,368 "Oopsie daisy" is very childish. 1 00:10:28,599 --> 00:10:32,771 So when we talk about this, we don't want to seem like a child. 1 00:10:32,796 --> 00:10:34,953 We want to seem like mature adults. 1 00:10:35,197 --> 00:10:36,824 Seem like, yeah. 1 00:10:36,850 --> 00:10:37,850 Okay. 1 00:10:37,850 --> 00:10:40,058 "Jammies", oo, I like this word. 1 00:10:40,265 --> 00:10:42,185 Put on your jammy-jammies. 1 00:10:42,350 --> 00:10:48,190 Jammies are the baby or the childish word for PJs. 1 00:10:48,190 --> 00:10:52,270 Now, you might say: "I don't get it, Ronnie, what are PJs?" 1 00:10:53,019 --> 00:10:57,797 What do you think PJs, p-jammies, pajamas. 1 00:10:57,822 --> 00:11:04,429 Woohoo. So, the clothes that we wear at nighttime to go to bed, we call them... 1 00:11:04,429 --> 00:11:06,585 For children we call them jammies. 1 00:11:06,610 --> 00:11:12,187 In short form we call them "PJs" and the long word is "pajamas". 1 00:11:13,370 --> 00:11:19,177 When you jump into your beddy-bye with your jammies, you are going to beddy-bye. 1 00:11:19,201 --> 00:11:26,153 So, "beddy-bye" is your bed or it's bedtime. 1 00:11:26,265 --> 00:11:35,344 And the other way that we make words are we simply add a "y" to some existing words. 1 00:11:35,370 --> 00:11:42,950 So, you've got your jammies on, you're in your beddy-byes, and you need your blankey. 1 00:11:42,950 --> 00:11:46,985 "Blankey" is the child's word for blanket. 1 00:11:47,009 --> 00:11:53,764 You might see children with a blankey, and it's their security blanket, but they call 1 00:11:53,789 --> 00:11:56,919 it "blankey" or "baba" sometimes. 1 00:11:56,919 --> 00:11:59,631 Depends on the age of the child. 1 00:12:00,226 --> 00:12:04,437 Children really like animals, but they can't... 1 00:12:04,461 --> 00:12:10,028 I guess they just can't say "horse", so they say: "horsey" or "doggy". 1 00:12:10,053 --> 00:12:11,987 Now, we say this sometimes. 1 00:12:12,370 --> 00:12:16,919 We say: "kitty" or they say "kitty", and they say "ducky". 1 00:12:16,919 --> 00:12:18,302 So maybe you're... 1 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. 1 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:24,250 It's amazing. 1 00:12:24,649 --> 00:12:25,649 Can you quack? 1 00:12:25,674 --> 00:12:26,879 Can you quack like a duck? 1 00:12:26,904 --> 00:12:31,663 So, the way that we make the words cute is we add a "y" to them. 1 00:12:31,870 --> 00:12:35,215 We usually use it with animals, I don't know why. 1 00:12:35,278 --> 00:12:46,509 So, very important to understand that it's okay to use these childish words, 1 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. 1 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:55,120 "Hey, look at the doggy." 1 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:57,542 The dog's like: "That's a duck." Okay? 1 00:12:57,756 --> 00:13:01,068 And if you're speaking to your partner. 1 00:13:01,220 --> 00:13:02,643 It's cool. 1 00:13:02,792 --> 00:13:08,206 Please be careful, don't use them in job interviews, don't use them when you first meet people 1 00:13:08,363 --> 00:13:12,579 because you will seem very childish and that's not cool. 1 00:13:12,604 --> 00:13:13,368 Okay? 1 00:13:13,393 --> 00:13:14,709 Beddy-byes for Wonnie. 1 00:13:14,734 --> 00:13:15,781 Bye-bye.