Lotso Fino' Chamoru Lulai
Lulai continues to speak more and more Chamoru about more and more things. In her third year, I've been encouraging her more and more to start responding in Chamoru by playing games, providing commentary in Chamoru to movies or videos she was watching on YouTube, telling stories in Chamoru, reading books. At first most of her Chamoru was blooming in the areas where I was prompting it. I would say "nihi ta hugåndo este" and she would start speaking Chamoru in response to the idea that Chamoru has to be used for the game we are about to play. But in the last week, and in particular since her younger sister has arrived, she has started to use Chamoru more and more organically and unprompted, telling stories in Chamoru that she starts herself and even creating her own games in Chamoru that she now invites me to play. To give you a good example of the language growth in her, take this character, Lotso from the film Toy S...