I noticed that when she writes, sometimes she writes the whole word backwards, like plain. My little brother used to do that all the time. I love your videos geofg!
Haha! This is too cute. When my mom was teaching my English as a kid, she would make up "grumpy mumpy" stories for me, about a little girl named mumpy who was always in a bad mood, and the things that happened in her day. I would draw the pictures for the stories. 笑
I think its very smart that you both communicate with nina with solely one language. Math is also like a language although in my opinion it is much easier to learn than any language because you don't have to memorize thousands of characters like in chinese or japanese. Sound and pattern recognition as well as brain development is more prevalent at a young age so I think you should push her to develop the skills that will serve her best.
Hello I've been a huge nina fan for a while and I'd just like to say a couple of things. First in return for all of the video uploads I'd like to say that milk is unhealthy. Not only does it have no nutritional value but it acidifies the blood which ends up leeching calcium from the bones. Cheese is even worse.
Also shes obviously very smart. You should push her to learn math and programming languages since she is still young. I always regretted that my parents didn't do the same.
@ihateflags1 Ummmm.... Milk and cheese are not essential to our diets, yes, but there is no solid scientific studies that say they are "harmful" or acidify the blood... O_o. The only people milk might hurt is those like me who are lactose intolerant. I'm pretty sure you got your information off one of those infomercial pages on google that are trying to sell their alternative health book/vitamin pill...
Why don't you try actually looking it up with the keywords milk unhealthy studies
I've been reading up on it for a while. Most of the things derived form extensive industrial processes are bad for you. Its more cost effective for a corporation to create the illusion of value and to cut corners than to actually create something nutritious.
@kpopshawol "Dairy products were the foods most often recalled by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from the period October 1, 1993 through September 30, 1998 because of contamination with infectious agents, mostly bacteria. (2)"
She's so cute! She writes so well for a 5 yr old aswell. We love the fancy Nancy books too so i cant wait to show this to my kids who are also japanese/english bilingual in japan.
@Fujiichannel Fancy Nancy, Dora the Explorer, Sesame Street and Curious George have all played a role in helping Nina's English. ha ha What do you do to help your kids become bilingual?
@geofg yes, my daughter loved Dora and my son, Diego. wiggles,playschool, sesame st etc loads of englsih kid's shows and books books books. We are in a rural area with only a small international community so it can be hard but we try to make a trip to my parents once a year and that helps alot. Once they start school its so hard to keep the english going strong. Nina's videos inspire us alot. You are very creative with the editing aswell!
@Fujiichannel Sounds similar. Even though we live in a big city, we still don't spend much time with the international community, so Nina plays almost exclsively with her Japanese friends. So, books, DVDs and visits back home are definitely important. How old are your kids now?
how cute! did I see a doremi wand?? I used to love doremi to death XD lol
haha seems like papa is plain don't worry all daughters bully their dads (my dad works out a lot so I usually give him a punch (not like a real one though lol))
@aoiskies Thanks! Yes, Nina has been trying to write in English a bit more, though she still can't spell. (And, I don't mind being plain. Nina is fancy enough for both of us. ha ha)
@downcloud Yes, she has read them. This video was inspired by those books. Nina really enjoys them, especially since they portray an independent minded girl, something you don't see a lot of in Japanese books.
Nina is so smart! Just 5 and she knows so much already! She even used the word accessory. My gosh! Being able to differentiate between plain and fancy and putting herself in the fancy row is advanced thinking!
I love it that she is bilingual. My grandsons should be bilingual in English and Spanish, but they aren't. They only know English. It's a shame, because I think it is so important!
Not only do you have a beautiful daughter, but she is very intelligent as well!
@Claycat4 Thank you! Do your grandsons have a chance to hear Spanish every day? Nina's English is far from perfect, but I do try to speak it to her everyday so she can understand it, at least. I think it is natural (and better) to have a primary language (Japanese in Nina's case) but it's also a missed opportunity if a parent does not use his or her native language with the child.
even the way she says fancy is fancy ~ super cute as always!
i don't think you need to worry about her english grammar at this point. she's still only 5. the more practice she gets, the better she'll be. i know kids her age who's only language is english and they speak the same way.
@kmah88 Thanks for the encouragement. If Nina ever has a chance to live in the U.S. for a few months or a year, I think that will smooth out her speaking ability.
just wondering, it is the camera's mirroring or just the way she writes "plain" with the L backwards, i don't know whether it'a a common way of writing for children at her age or just dyslexia. my younger brother has dyslexia and sometimes he writes like that.. i'm just wondering. i hope you don't mind.
@itsjustanOBSESSION I think at Nina's age (5) a lot of kids write letters backwards and upside down etc. and in most cases they correct it in a couple of years. If Nina is still writing letters backwards when she gets into elementary school, we might check for dyslexia etc. but no, at this point, we are not worried about that.
@geofg Yes, basically all kids do this when they're learning. I remember being a very young kid and hesitating when writing b's and d's. It's like you know there's a long line and a circle, but forget the order of it, etc., until you get older and it becomes second nature. Like you, I'm a native-English speaker who learned Japanese, so I think you and I can understand how little kids feel writing Roman letters. Kinda like maybe how we feel remembering each part of a kanji to write it properly.
@NastyaSwatch Not really. I try to only use English with Nina and her mother uses Japanese. And, we try to read her one book in Japanese and one in English every night. That's about it.
@xXPandaTsubasaXx ha ha ha! Nina hasn't seen any of those scary doll movies or stories yet, but I know what you mean. The first one I ever saw was with a doll called Talking Tina on the old original Twilight Zone. It was a doll that talked, but then started staying things like, "My name is Talking Tina, and I'm gonna kill you." Sticks with me to this day.
lol..cute nina..she always impress me..with the way she say ''faanncyy.'' and her funny face..she always can quicky learn everything that she read or she watch..you have a great daugter, sir..i wish someday i can have a daughter as cute as nina..
This is so cute! I love how she streeses the "a" in faaaaaaancy. This is the good stuff you're always going to remember, ne? Parenting seems like such a joy. :)
@nihonjenn And, it's amazing how much you do forget. When I look at Nina's videos from even just a year or two ago I am always surprised at how much she has changed.
I love how Nina sells the word "FAAANcy" each time and sits herself in the fancy line. It seems that she overestimated her pupil's ability to move up a level of abstraction from simple contrasts of similar items to the more general quality of "fancy" with the clock and basket (each placed in the proper group no less), but you have to challenge your students for them to advance. ;-)
@languageandhumor I'll admit I should have been alert to the fact that the clock was in the plain row, the basket in the fancy row, but I protest that the more general quality of "fancy" is not necessarily intuitive, at least not to a 44 year old plain guy like me. Perhaps, ultimately, you just can't teach fancy to some folks.
@geofg I think the trick is that Nina seems to be using "fancy" in the sense of "adorned" (including adding ice to water) and not (unadorned but) "luxurious" like cashmere or something.
Tell Nina that in French "ch" is "sh," so "chocolat" is ショコラ not チョコラ.
After 2 weeks of Nina-marathon, we are so inspired to have a child of our own. She's so special. The ending shows us just how smart she is. She knows being French is associated with 'fancy'. And gold-night... lol.
At 5, her handwriting is already better than mine at ten times her age.
It is interesting how she is working on language skills, by sorting and comparing. Part of building a vocabulary is distinguishing between what is the word, and what is not the word.
@geofg What she was doing there. The basket is fancy, the clock is not. The one doll had hair clips and was fancy, the other doll was plain. It was cool watching her. One can imagine Webster or Linneaus doing the same thing when cooking up definitions.
@zoodensha Ah, what is "fancy" and what is not. I see. With kids, these ways of rationalizing the world come so naturally. I wish I could have learned Japanese that way. Learning as an adult, it has been a very frustrating process.
She is so adorable! And such an imagination! I love to see her every time! I think I'm definitely going to start saying "gold night". I love it!!! You're lucky to have such a precious little girl!
I loved it when she sat herself along the fancy things row! XD Made my day, it was too funny! And ice water! Genius. XD Now I can enjoy drinking fancy water when it's hot. :D
I'm kind of proud to see her write! I think this is the first time I've seen it. She's growing into a good girl! XD
omg!!!!! I'm a french 19 yo girl and my favorite shows are How I met your mother....and Nina <3<3<3 I have a japanese boyfriend , and i'm still young but when i see Cute Nina i just feel like having a lovely child just like her. Ah Nina when im sad , i come to watch your show!!!!! thank you to "Papa" for those videos!
Oh and Nina next time you know what would be "fancy" ? To say Good night in French! " Bonne nuit " !!!
@katsukagerou What is "How I Met Your Mother"? Is it a YouTube channel? Or a TV show? Bonne nuit? How do you pronounce it? Like bone newey? OK, I'll teach it to Nina. As Fancy Nancy says, "Everything sounds fancy in French."
@geofg its a funny tv show but its not really for Nina its more like adult comedy but don't get me wrong it's not something weird!!!It'a a father that explain to his kids how he met their mother and it's his life in NYC with this friends ! very funny! haha! you say ,,let me see if my japanese katakana skills an help me out here ボヌ・ヌイ！Hehe !!! Nina do you know i have a japanese boyfriend that is learning french with my help! let's see who will prononce it best!!! gogogogogo niiinnaaa!!! <3<3<3<3
@geofg Aw Nina is sooooo cute hehe =) ! She is indeed a fancy girl :D, she said that ''everything sounds fancy in french"? should I teach her french then haha?
She has such an elaborate vocabulary for her age. I don't think I knew what an accessory was until I was 10 or so. I always said hair clip or something simple. Have a Gold Night Nina!!!
@kemushichan It was inspired by the Fancy Nancy books. Do you know them? They are quite clever and Nina has picked up a bit of American style "attitude" from them.
wow, just wow, she's very smart and so very cute, it's a pleasure to watch her. thx for sharing these memories, they brighten even the darkest of days!
gold night ninaaa :DD
evetanjong 1 month ago
I noticed that when she writes, sometimes she writes the whole word backwards, like plain. My little brother used to do that all the time. I love your videos geofg!
MoeTheFro 2 months ago
gold night hahaha :D
evetanjong 4 months ago
This just gave me an idea for work. ^_^
BitsyTheNinja 5 months ago
@BitsyTheNinja Do you teach kids?
geofg 5 months ago
Holy crap! 428 likes and 0 dislikes. Good video!
PeterVanVoorhis 5 months ago 3
@PeterVanVoorhis ha ha I guess the trolls and skeptics haven't found this one yet.
geofg 5 months ago 5
i loved it when she went to sit in a straight line with all the fancy items. haha too adorable :)
ausschlafen15 5 months ago 2
I think I'm going to have to chocora right now.
auntbecky 6 months ago 2
Haha! This is too cute. When my mom was teaching my English as a kid, she would make up "grumpy mumpy" stories for me, about a little girl named mumpy who was always in a bad mood, and the things that happened in her day. I would draw the pictures for the stories. 笑
kpopshawol 6 months ago
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ihateflags1 7 months ago
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I think its very smart that you both communicate with nina with solely one language. Math is also like a language although in my opinion it is much easier to learn than any language because you don't have to memorize thousands of characters like in chinese or japanese. Sound and pattern recognition as well as brain development is more prevalent at a young age so I think you should push her to develop the skills that will serve her best.
ihateflags1 7 months ago
Hello I've been a huge nina fan for a while and I'd just like to say a couple of things. First in return for all of the video uploads I'd like to say that milk is unhealthy. Not only does it have no nutritional value but it acidifies the blood which ends up leeching calcium from the bones. Cheese is even worse.
Also shes obviously very smart. You should push her to learn math and programming languages since she is still young. I always regretted that my parents didn't do the same.
ihateflags1 7 months ago
@ihateflags1 Ummmm.... Milk and cheese are not essential to our diets, yes, but there is no solid scientific studies that say they are "harmful" or acidify the blood... O_o. The only people milk might hurt is those like me who are lactose intolerant. I'm pretty sure you got your information off one of those infomercial pages on google that are trying to sell their alternative health book/vitamin pill...
I do agree with the math.
kpopshawol 6 months ago
@kpopshawol well you would be wrong.
Why don't you try actually looking it up with the keywords milk unhealthy studies
I've been reading up on it for a while. Most of the things derived form extensive industrial processes are bad for you. Its more cost effective for a corporation to create the illusion of value and to cut corners than to actually create something nutritious.
ihateflags1 6 months ago
@kpopshawol "Dairy products were the foods most often recalled by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from the period October 1, 1993 through September 30, 1998 because of contamination with infectious agents, mostly bacteria. (2)"
ihateflags1 6 months ago
Love U.. ^^
popolyploy 7 months ago
Wow!! Amazing cute gir|.^^
popolyploy 7 months ago
lol! nice 1, nina! another gold lesson learned ;)
rushingmajor23 7 months ago
gold night instead of good night? wow! that's fancy haha :D
saadahnurul 8 months ago
Yes Nina, U're FANCYYYYY
AtazzzZ 8 months ago
you should teach her to use A and AN , so cute , love her
Alanitoo 8 months ago
She's so cute! She writes so well for a 5 yr old aswell. We love the fancy Nancy books too so i cant wait to show this to my kids who are also japanese/english bilingual in japan.
Fujiichannel 9 months ago
@Fujiichannel Fancy Nancy, Dora the Explorer, Sesame Street and Curious George have all played a role in helping Nina's English. ha ha What do you do to help your kids become bilingual?
geofg 9 months ago
@geofg yes, my daughter loved Dora and my son, Diego. wiggles,playschool, sesame st etc loads of englsih kid's shows and books books books. We are in a rural area with only a small international community so it can be hard but we try to make a trip to my parents once a year and that helps alot. Once they start school its so hard to keep the english going strong. Nina's videos inspire us alot. You are very creative with the editing aswell!
Fujiichannel 9 months ago
@Fujiichannel Sounds similar. Even though we live in a big city, we still don't spend much time with the international community, so Nina plays almost exclsively with her Japanese friends. So, books, DVDs and visits back home are definitely important. How old are your kids now?
geofg 9 months ago
@Fujiichannel I just looked at your channel. Is that your daughter doing gymnastics? She is amazing!
geofg 9 months ago
@geofg Yes that is my daughter. Thankyou! She loves gymnastics. She is 8 and my son is 4 and a half.
Fujiichannel 9 months ago
@Fujiichannel i dont want to specify,but i wrote better,when i was 5yo.
sushimaster006 8 months ago
she's going to have a good future ahead.
abthurd 9 months ago
doesnt 'chocora' mean chocolate? in Dutch 'chocola' means chocolate
JeZebeL2600 9 months ago
@JeZebeL2600 Yes, it does. I'm not sure why Nina decided to use that word, but she does love chocolate.
geofg 9 months ago 5
how cute! did I see a doremi wand?? I used to love doremi to death XD lol
haha seems like papa is plain don't worry all daughters bully their dads (my dad works out a lot so I usually give him a punch (not like a real one though lol))
NadiaEveStudio 10 months ago
I'm always going to call ice cream chocora now. =)
Gold night!
MewMewCinnamon 10 months ago
You must be very proud :) She's sweet and smart
omganaccountname 10 months ago
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hehe, that's what I was about to say too - very smart for a 5-year-old!
CleverDjembe 10 months ago
Gold night, champagne wishes and caviar dreams Nina ..bisous
Thunder777m 11 months ago
i love how she pronounce FAAANNNNCYYYYY.
Orli 11 months ago 32
LOLL. ice water is fancy. she's so cuteeee. i love her.
uhoitzkim 11 months ago 2
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hamiduetian 11 months ago
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how old is she in this video?
kOjiE15 11 months ago
how old is she in this vid?
kOjiE15 11 months ago
@kOjiE15 She is five.
geofg 11 months ago
Wow! Her vocabulary is insanely good for such a young girl! How old is she? She's really intelligent. You both should be proud parents!
tsukael 11 months ago 4
@tsukael Thanks! She is five now.
geofg 11 months ago
aww! kawaii desu ne!!!!
delewill78 11 months ago
Can I get one of those?... Can't wait to have kids...
0eulogra0 11 months ago
what a brilliant girl she is..:")
lahanisz 1 year ago
am having an overdose from cuteness X(
stoonaje 1 year ago
I definitely didn't know the word accessory when I was 5. Her English is going really well.
BruckThatsMe 1 year ago 4
@BruckThatsMe ha ha She learned that word from the "Fancy Nancy" books.
geofg 1 year ago
"Gold night" was so clever of her :)
BlackStrawberryDream 1 year ago 3
JAPANESE ROCK,,,,,, NINA ROCK
PKSTRIKEq8 1 year ago
Even the way she says the word 'Fancy' is so fancy! Love this video. Poor Papa is Plain lol! Lovely to see Nina's writing in English too.
aoiskies 1 year ago
@aoiskies Thanks! Yes, Nina has been trying to write in English a bit more, though she still can't spell. (And, I don't mind being plain. Nina is fancy enough for both of us. ha ha)
geofg 1 year ago
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Lovin da way she says 'faaaaaaaaaaancy'... She's so adorable!!!
BAGLOVA 1 year ago
Lovin da way she sas 'faaaaaaaaaaancy'... She's so adorable!!!
BAGLOVA 1 year ago
i love the way she said FANCY hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
she's so adorable >___________________<
paangz 1 year ago 2
素晴らしい。ファンシーの列に体育座りするシーンは計算で出来るものではない。
マリリンモンローのスカートシーンのように、
ニーナ親子の動画集は歴史に残るだろう。
nal4122 1 year ago
i thought she was about to say plain girl
supersingingfreak 1 year ago
kawaiiiiiiiii
pinoko1311 1 year ago
I was recently introduced to the children's books "Fancy Nancy"...has Nina read them, or is this some magical coincidence?
downcloud 1 year ago
@downcloud Yes, she has read them. This video was inspired by those books. Nina really enjoys them, especially since they portray an independent minded girl, something you don't see a lot of in Japanese books.
geofg 1 year ago 9
Nina is so smart! Just 5 and she knows so much already! She even used the word accessory. My gosh! Being able to differentiate between plain and fancy and putting herself in the fancy row is advanced thinking!
I love it that she is bilingual. My grandsons should be bilingual in English and Spanish, but they aren't. They only know English. It's a shame, because I think it is so important!
Not only do you have a beautiful daughter, but she is very intelligent as well!
Claycat4 1 year ago 3
@Claycat4 Thank you! Do your grandsons have a chance to hear Spanish every day? Nina's English is far from perfect, but I do try to speak it to her everyday so she can understand it, at least. I think it is natural (and better) to have a primary language (Japanese in Nina's case) but it's also a missed opportunity if a parent does not use his or her native language with the child.
geofg 1 year ago 3
NINAちゃんが 教える First English Class~~ だっ！
We all scream for Chocora!
0ooViVioo0 1 year ago 2
Joy and pleasure to watch videos with Her ...greetings from Poland
diamencik1 1 year ago
even the way she says fancy is fancy ~ super cute as always!
i don't think you need to worry about her english grammar at this point. she's still only 5. the more practice she gets, the better she'll be. i know kids her age who's only language is english and they speak the same way.
kmah88 1 year ago 2
@kmah88 Thanks for the encouragement. If Nina ever has a chance to live in the U.S. for a few months or a year, I think that will smooth out her speaking ability.
geofg 1 year ago
U are little fancy girl :))
mojizmojiz 1 year ago
She is so cute. (:
UnderTheH00D 1 year ago
OMGOSH IS THAT THAT ONE ANIME'S STICK/WAND THING I SEEEEEE?? I recognize it from somewhere :/
oh you think you fancy?
haha she's so cute X3
kokoqui 1 year ago
@kokoqui Yeah, that's the wand from the purikura animation. It comes with changable crystal things for the top.
geofg 1 year ago
fancy and plain, so amazing for me.. make me smile,gold night Nina.
MrElephantinytiny 1 year ago
just wondering, it is the camera's mirroring or just the way she writes "plain" with the L backwards, i don't know whether it'a a common way of writing for children at her age or just dyslexia. my younger brother has dyslexia and sometimes he writes like that.. i'm just wondering. i hope you don't mind.
itsjustanOBSESSION 1 year ago
@itsjustanOBSESSION I think at Nina's age (5) a lot of kids write letters backwards and upside down etc. and in most cases they correct it in a couple of years. If Nina is still writing letters backwards when she gets into elementary school, we might check for dyslexia etc. but no, at this point, we are not worried about that.
geofg 1 year ago
@geofg Yes, basically all kids do this when they're learning. I remember being a very young kid and hesitating when writing b's and d's. It's like you know there's a long line and a circle, but forget the order of it, etc., until you get older and it becomes second nature. Like you, I'm a native-English speaker who learned Japanese, so I think you and I can understand how little kids feel writing Roman letters. Kinda like maybe how we feel remembering each part of a kanji to write it properly.
MusicFanOnline 1 year ago
@MusicFanOnline ha ha Yeah, except kanji have a LOT more strokes to remember than English letters.
geofg 1 year ago
she says "fancy" so fancy.
lol.
readkollmomo 1 year ago 4
gold night. a fancy way to say good night. lol nina you're so smart and kawaii :D
hellondoth 1 year ago 2
your family made me smile and you all made my day happy =)
tfreaks89 1 year ago
Do you have a methodic lessons how to teach child two languages?
NastyaSwatch 1 year ago
@NastyaSwatch Not really. I try to only use English with Nina and her mother uses Japanese. And, we try to read her one book in Japanese and one in English every night. That's about it.
geofg 1 year ago
Love it! nice free and easy lessons Nina! : ) So imaginative! hope you're all doing fine, Geoff! God bless!
mcs1775 1 year ago 5
@mcs1775 Thanks, Cai! Keira is a natural at being fancy!
geofg 1 year ago
wow... i was having a horrible day...
after a couple of Nina videos, i'm off to sleep with a smile on my face.
thank you Nina! thanks Papa & Mama.
have a Gold Night!
wait... i want some Chocora for midnight snack... heeheehee! you
hybridstar08 1 year ago
@hybridstar08 Sorry to hear about your horrible day, but glad to hear you could go to bed with a smile on your face.
geofg 1 year ago
ugh..ever since I've read so many stories about haunted/possessed dolls, I'm soo creeped out by them....so the dolls in the vid creeped me out a lil.
Other than that, cute vid ^^ I love how she put herself in the fancy category and put you in the plain xD lmao!
and I like you did the intro design, soo faaAAAaancy
xXPandaTsubasaXx 1 year ago
@xXPandaTsubasaXx ha ha ha! Nina hasn't seen any of those scary doll movies or stories yet, but I know what you mean. The first one I ever saw was with a doll called Talking Tina on the old original Twilight Zone. It was a doll that talked, but then started staying things like, "My name is Talking Tina, and I'm gonna kill you." Sticks with me to this day.
geofg 1 year ago
プロフィールみたらお父さんは高校の先生なんですね！ニーナちゃん日本語も英語もうまいのはそのせいですね！僕は大学４年生で９年間も英語勉強したんですが、英語ぜんぜん話せませんｗニーナちゃんうらやましいです
truffau777 1 year ago
@truffau777 海外に住むチャンスがあればそれが一番効果的なぺらぺらになる方法だと思います。それかネイティブスピーカーの恋人ができたら〜。もう十分英語を勉強したから毎日英語を使うチャンスがあればすぐぺらぺらになると思います。
geofg 1 year ago
OMG I LOVE HER SHES SO CUUUTE!
spaceoo 1 year ago
nina is so intelligent and beautiful!!! and you have a wonderful family! :)
emwong89 1 year ago
i lv wen she whispers. "i used poloris assecories"lol.
Mariamparker 1 year ago 2
FANCY love how she says that
its been a while since i ahve seen her
quite grown up now =D
teensrox90 1 year ago
Oh my she is adorable and so SMART! Aww I love her I want a little girl now. :)
OpalEl 1 year ago
lol..cute nina..she always impress me..with the way she say ''faanncyy.'' and her funny face..she always can quicky learn everything that she read or she watch..you have a great daugter, sir..i wish someday i can have a daughter as cute as nina..
MsFesty 1 year ago
@MsFesty Thanks! Yeah, we feel lucky to have Nina to make us laugh.
geofg 1 year ago
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MsFesty 1 year ago
HAHA,,Sweety Fancy Nina !!
Always Cute :))
Gold evening,Nina ;p
oNANAo 1 year ago
This is so cute! I love how she streeses the "a" in faaaaaaancy. This is the good stuff you're always going to remember, ne? Parenting seems like such a joy. :)
Goldbye! hehe ;)
nihonjenn 1 year ago
@nihonjenn And, it's amazing how much you do forget. When I look at Nina's videos from even just a year or two ago I am always surprised at how much she has changed.
geofg 1 year ago
faaaaaaancy~
Pikachann 1 year ago
your nina very very so cute
jangsosin 1 year ago
She's gonna be a wonderful English teacher :D Now I understand the word "fancy" :D
Greetings from Germany ;)
himbeertabi 1 year ago
This is like pure sunshine on a (golden) Sunday morning to watch this. :)
Thank you for sharing, and a big Thank you to Nina! You always make me smile.
/mtm
mectechman1 1 year ago
賢い！:D Nina is so fancy!
Yunalesca1 1 year ago
She really is wonderful. What an imagination? I love it. I am off to Japan in 2 weeks!
aussieellen 1 year ago
@aussieellen What is the first thing you will eat when you get to Japan?
geofg 1 year ago
"Gold night." :)
AngelStar188 1 year ago
faaaaaaaaaaaaannncyyyyyyyyy~! ^.^
adolescentLady 1 year ago
I love how Nina sells the word "FAAANcy" each time and sits herself in the fancy line. It seems that she overestimated her pupil's ability to move up a level of abstraction from simple contrasts of similar items to the more general quality of "fancy" with the clock and basket (each placed in the proper group no less), but you have to challenge your students for them to advance. ;-)
languageandhumor 1 year ago
@languageandhumor I'll admit I should have been alert to the fact that the clock was in the plain row, the basket in the fancy row, but I protest that the more general quality of "fancy" is not necessarily intuitive, at least not to a 44 year old plain guy like me. Perhaps, ultimately, you just can't teach fancy to some folks.
geofg 1 year ago
@geofg I think the trick is that Nina seems to be using "fancy" in the sense of "adorned" (including adding ice to water) and not (unadorned but) "luxurious" like cashmere or something.
Tell Nina that in French "ch" is "sh," so "chocolat" is ショコラ not チョコラ.
languageandhumor 1 year ago
@languageandhumor So, if I adorn the button hole of my faded, dirty overalls with a rose, will Nina consider me fancy, I wonder.
geofg 1 year ago
After 2 weeks of Nina-marathon, we are so inspired to have a child of our own. She's so special. The ending shows us just how smart she is. She knows being French is associated with 'fancy'. And gold-night... lol.
Pattamawanthefirst 1 year ago
@Pattamawanthefirst Nina marathon! ha ha I wish you the best in having a wonderful child of your own one day!
geofg 1 year ago
so cute : D
Junyamas 1 year ago
Nina Chan, u take my heart away over and over again !! From ur fanciest fanclub.
senorita2bitchy 1 year ago
What's the small dolls we can see on your window at 1:51? it's look like a ghost !!!
FelineNetri 1 year ago
@FelineNetri Those are called Teruteru-bouzu in Japanese. We put them in the window so that it will not rain.
geofg 1 year ago
At 5, her handwriting is already better than mine at ten times her age.
It is interesting how she is working on language skills, by sorting and comparing. Part of building a vocabulary is distinguishing between what is the word, and what is not the word.
zoodensha 1 year ago
@zoodensha What is an example of "what is not the word"?
geofg 1 year ago
@geofg What she was doing there. The basket is fancy, the clock is not. The one doll had hair clips and was fancy, the other doll was plain. It was cool watching her. One can imagine Webster or Linneaus doing the same thing when cooking up definitions.
zoodensha 1 year ago
@zoodensha Ah, what is "fancy" and what is not. I see. With kids, these ways of rationalizing the world come so naturally. I wish I could have learned Japanese that way. Learning as an adult, it has been a very frustrating process.
geofg 1 year ago
she is SO SO cleaver.. god bless her.
o0Asami0o 1 year ago
ohhhh... this is so cute.... i wanna be your fancy, Nina... ^^
PLOYZII9 1 year ago
She is so adorable! And such an imagination! I love to see her every time! I think I'm definitely going to start saying "gold night". I love it!!! You're lucky to have such a precious little girl!
Cheers!
LadyGrinningSoul 1 year ago
@LadyGrinningSoul Thanks! We do feel quite lucky to have Nina.
geofg 1 year ago
Nina is such a Fancy teacher! I like fancy teachers :D
kittykattykoo 1 year ago
Ice water, lol ^-^ so cute
tias90 1 year ago
I loved it when she sat herself along the fancy things row! XD Made my day, it was too funny! And ice water! Genius. XD Now I can enjoy drinking fancy water when it's hot. :D
I'm kind of proud to see her write! I think this is the first time I've seen it. She's growing into a good girl! XD
HisakiNami 1 year ago
@HisakiNami Thanks! Yeah, even I sometimes have to go back and look at some of her older videos to realize how much Nina has grown.
geofg 1 year ago
omg!!!!! I'm a french 19 yo girl and my favorite shows are How I met your mother....and Nina <3<3<3 I have a japanese boyfriend , and i'm still young but when i see Cute Nina i just feel like having a lovely child just like her. Ah Nina when im sad , i come to watch your show!!!!! thank you to "Papa" for those videos!
Oh and Nina next time you know what would be "fancy" ? To say Good night in French! " Bonne nuit " !!!
Your fan , Vivi.
katsukagerou 1 year ago
@katsukagerou What is "How I Met Your Mother"? Is it a YouTube channel? Or a TV show? Bonne nuit? How do you pronounce it? Like bone newey? OK, I'll teach it to Nina. As Fancy Nancy says, "Everything sounds fancy in French."
geofg 1 year ago
@geofg its a funny tv show but its not really for Nina its more like adult comedy but don't get me wrong it's not something weird!!!It'a a father that explain to his kids how he met their mother and it's his life in NYC with this friends ! very funny! haha! you say ,,let me see if my japanese katakana skills an help me out here ボヌ・ヌイ！Hehe !!! Nina do you know i have a japanese boyfriend that is learning french with my help! let's see who will prononce it best!!! gogogogogo niiinnaaa!!! <3<3<3<3
katsukagerou 1 year ago
@katsukagerou OK, I will see if I can watch "How I Met Your Mother" on the internet somehow.
And we will practice ボンヌ・ヌイ
geofg 1 year ago
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@geofg yeah! you can watch it on this link : free-tv-video-online.info/internet/how_i_met_your_mother/ .
Enjoy!!!!
katsukagerou 1 year ago
@geofg how i met your mother is an american sitcom with the actor who was doogie howser
kmah88 1 year ago
@geofg Aw Nina is sooooo cute hehe =) ! She is indeed a fancy girl :D, she said that ''everything sounds fancy in french"? should I teach her french then haha?
Trysedin 1 year ago
She has such an elaborate vocabulary for her age. I don't think I knew what an accessory was until I was 10 or so. I always said hair clip or something simple. Have a Gold Night Nina!!!
exathent 1 year ago 10
@exathent Well, she learned that particular word from the Fancy Nancy books. I didn't even know that's what you call those things. ha ha
geofg 1 year ago
Excellent Lesson Sensai Nina!!! Thank you for teaching us the difference between Fancy and plain. I must say you are a very fancy young lady!!!! xoxo
mindya12 1 year ago
@geofg HAHA! Yea, that's for sure! ;)
Shidira 1 year ago
Nina's english improved a lot! I miss listening to her talk in japanese somehow.. She's so adorable! \o/
bakahimesama 1 year ago
omg nina is so cute!! >.< now i understand the difference between plain and fancy! :D
brambleface 1 year ago
Nina you and your english are so FANCY. Haha that so cute that she has a fascination with "fancy" !! =D What sass!
kemushichan 1 year ago
@kemushichan It was inspired by the Fancy Nancy books. Do you know them? They are quite clever and Nina has picked up a bit of American style "attitude" from them.
geofg 1 year ago
lol. I love the quotation marks around easy, fun, and free.
LilytheFrilly 1 year ago
Nina Nina Nina....!!! Kawaiiiiiiiii.....
MelissaIreneTrinity 1 year ago
She is great. And a very good teacher (like her dad, right?)
I hope to see more lessons ^___^
WoodGirl14 1 year ago 2
@WoodGirl14 OK, hopefully she will have a new lesson soon.
geofg 1 year ago
I wanna be FAANNNcy too!
nzra 1 year ago
ice water epic
201marino 1 year ago
Nina is a fancy girl
but why papa is plain.
She so kawaiiii.
Gold night.
tissnadi 1 year ago
@tissnadi I don't mind being plain. ha ha
geofg 1 year ago
wow, just wow, she's very smart and so very cute, it's a pleasure to watch her. thx for sharing these memories, they brighten even the darkest of days!
all the best to you and your family!
tubelev 1 year ago
@tubelev Thanks!
geofg 1 year ago
i miss little nina chan so much! :) the plain doll looks like nina chan :) but she is very pretty even she is a plain doll :)
TheJoy0919 1 year ago
NIAN IS FANCY ^^
aayammok 1 year ago
She is so precious. Hahahhahs! I always enjoy watching her antics~ So adorable!
schmaltziness 1 year ago
miss u so much Nina ^______^
LannaloverK 1 year ago
this e is plain ; this é is fancy 8D
it was a fancy night.
HyakkoShachi 1 year ago
@HyakkoShachi Hey, how'd you make that fancy e?
geofg 1 year ago
@geofg I changed my keyboard settings to canadian multilingual standard.
HyakkoShachi 1 year ago
WOW Popo-chan looks like Nina. Its so cute hahaha. Is she going to school already?
MyAnimelover16 1 year ago
I agree... everything on the left is fAAAncy ^^
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MyAnimelover16 1 year ago
i'm still only 17, but i wish that i can have a cutie like nina :D
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