Baby's First 100 words in Korean

Do you think that the first 100 words that the Korean baby learns is the same as the first 100 words that the American baby learns?

I've been trying to do some google searches for a list of the Korean baby's first 100 words.  I thought it would be a good starting point.
I came across this great audio book: Baby's First Words in Chinese (newborn to 2 years old) but would love to find it in Korean.
Then I came across a scholarly article that studied the content of a baby's first words in English, Chinese and Cantonese, which said a lot of things I didn't understand, but I sorta get what they're saying here:

... although one cannot make generalities at the level of word class (e.g., children learn nouns or verbs), one can make generalities within word classes— children learn terms to describe people (whether kinship terms or individual names), concrete, manipulable object nouns, action verbs, and so on. In all three languages, the common nouns that children learned were manipulable objects that children encountered in their homes, or animals, rather than larger household objects or outside things

Finally, I have been coming across of lots of resources for the native Korean speaker trying to teach their child English.  My impression is that many Korean parents are also gungho about setting up their children for success by starting them early on learning English AND Mandarin Chinese. So there are books, websites, apps, DVDs, CDs, etc, that teach English to Korean speakers, which I would imagine works the other way...teaching Korean to English speakers.

This Korean parenting website tells parents that baby's who know a lot of words in English will be the final victor in the fight.  (Fight against what...I'm not sure!).  They advise parents to teach their children vocab words by topic instead of word by word.  Here's the words they offer:

◎ 신체부위

 body    몸

 hands  손

 legs     다리

 face     얼굴

 mouth   입

 ears     귀

 teeth    이

 feet      발

 nose    코

 eyes    눈


◎ 음식

apple    사과

 potato   감자

 carrot   당근

 egg      달걀

 bread   빵

 cake    케이크

candy    사탕

 milk      우유

 water   물

◎ 사람~가족

 baby    아기

 boy      소년

 girl       소녀

 brother 남자형제

 sister   여자형제
mother   어머니

 father   아버지

 man     남자

 woman 여자

◎ 동물

 bear     곰

 cat       고양이

 cow     소

 dog      개

 elephant           코끼리

 fish      물고기

 fox       여우

 horse   말

 lion      사자

 monkey 원숭이

 pig       돼지

 rabbit   토끼

◎ 행동

 eat       먹다

 sleep   자다

 go        가다

 come    오다

 stand   서다

 sit        앉다

 run       뛰다

 walk     걷다

 cry       울다

 dance  춤추다

 drink    마시다

 listen    듣다

 look     보다

 read     읽다

 speak   말하다

 swim    수영하다

 watch   보다

 write    쓰다

◎ 탈것

airplane 비행기

 boat     보트

 bus      버스

 car       자동차

 ship     배

 train     기차

taxi       택시

◎ 의복

clothes  옷

 dress   원피스

 hat       모자

 shirt     티셔츠

 glasses            안경

socks    양말

 skirt     치마

 pants   바지

◎ 주변 사물

balloon  풍선

 ball      공

 bed      침대

 clock    시계

 doll      인형

 door     문

fork       포크

 spoon  숟가락

 table    탁자

 telephone         전화기

 window            창문

◎ 자연

flower    꽃

 grass   풀

 moon    달

 sun      해

 rain      비

 mountain           산

 river     강

snow    눈

 star      별

 tree      나무

◎ 시간

morning 아침

 night    밤

 afternoon          오후

 month   달

 time      시간
 week    일주일 

Blogshare: Teaching Children to Read and Write in More Than One Orthography: Tips for Parent

Multilingual Living blog recently posted an article called: Teaching Children to Read and Write in More than One Orthography: Tips for Parents.  It's an excellent, academic yet practical article.  I'll probably continue to refer to the post and the author for more information about multi-lingual development, but I'm taking away 3 points for now:

1.     Our child can learn the Korean alphabet at the same time as the English alphabet..."There are no rules with regard to how many writing systems a child can learn at once.  Human learning capacity is highly adaptable. In general, children certainly have the capacity to learn more than one writing system..."

2.     There's lots more to think about..."practically you may want to mull over several factors that will affect your children’s multiliteracy progress: For example, your own literacy competence, your availability, your support, and your children’s developmental characteristics."

3.     Come up with a plan and revise as necessary..."All in all, some sort of planning and decision need to be made before you begin your home literacy teaching. The experiences of many parents suggest that the crucial step in teaching heritage literacy successfully at home is that you have to have a plan in place before you start, although you can change or modify your plan any time if it does not work.”

Reading articles like this get me excited, because it leads me to believe, “by golly, maybe we CAN be somewhat successful in developing some fluency in our children in multiple languages besides English!” 

The plan for now is that I continue to develop my own literacy and fluency in Korean (reading children’s books, increasing my vocabulary, practicing conversational Korean, studying grammar, and gaining confidence).  So, when baby comes, I can try to speak 100% Korean and begin teaching the Korean writing system.  Since Husband and I speak English to each other and English is all around us, it will come naturally.  Immersing our children in Korean will require intentional and planned efforts, which starts now…before baby comes. 

Top 3 Languages

Conversation after dinner today:

Me: Last night, I started a new blog to catalog our efforts to teach our children to be bilingual.
Husband: Bilingual?!  Our kids are going to be Quadlingual!  Mandarin, English, Spanish and Korean
Me: What about your Cantonese? What will your mom speak to our kid when she comes over (3 times a week)?  Aren't you sad that we won't be passing on your Cantonese to our children?
Husband: (Out comes the iphone). Let's see what's more useful: googling....language...speaker...world.  Wikipedia says:
Mandarin: 1025 million!!!
Spanish: 400 million
Korean: 78 million
Cantonese: 71 million 
Our kid is going to tap into that potential of reaching 1025 million people...
Me: I guess I better change my blog name to Konglisharin.

Raising Bilingual Children

Recently, Ohdeedoh (a much-loved site about all things kids) posted 5 "easy" ways in fostering bilingualism in your baby.

I thought I should take stock of how "easy" these would be for our family:

1. One Language Per Parent: This technique works well if you are already bilingual or trilingual. You make a house rule out of it. Your child will have to speak a different language to each parent.

Husband and I are both semi-trilingual.  I speak English very well, and Korean/Spanish not so well.  Husband speaks English and Cantonese/Spanish.  However, as beloved as his home language of Cantonese is...it's not as universal as Mandarin.  He hasn't taken any formal training in Mandarin, but finds the similarities of the 2 comforting.  We decided that I would be responsible for teaching Korean and Spanish.  Husband would speak English and Mandarin.  But we've got a lot of learning to do to make that happen.

2. One Language Per Room or Per Floor: When you use this learning tip, make it a house rule that in one room, everyone must speak the same language while in another room, they must change it. Keep the languages the same for a determined period of time, 4 to 12 months.

I think whatever the set-up, speaking in a second (non-dominant) language takes practice, commitment and consistency.

3. Movies & Media: It's easy to stock up on movies and DVDs that will allow your child to develop another language. Most DVDs now come with a few different language tracks, which will allow you child to watch a movie in another language.  

 Korean movies, TV shows, music, and educational programming is probably the easiest effort.  Kids love screen time on the computer, TV or iphone and ipad....and maybe even videogames.  So, all screen time could possibly be language time!

4. Classes & Tutors: Finding a tutor or introductory classes can also be an option for some children. Classes that include a lot of games (flash-card based) and some media will make learning another language a lot easier than just sitting on a chair for a whole hour.  

The same Korean School that I went to when I was in elementary school is still running in my parent's city 30 minutes away.  I hated Korean School!  Would I do that to my child?  I guess so, if I want my child to learn Korean.  Since we live in a highly-Korean populated area, I'll also look into Korean pre-schools or daycares.

5. Immersion: There's no replacement for full immersion. This can be done in a school in your city or if you move to another country.

By the time our child(ren) are of school age, I hope an immersion program in Korean or Spanish will be available near us.  I have heard they are trying to implement a Korean immersion program in the school district I grew up in.

I hope my internet search will yield more tools and research of things that we can do in the home on a daily basis.