From some toddler raising book, Mami and Papi got the idea that toddler will say 'no' all the time at one stage and the 'solution' to not to have too much 'nos' is that the parents should try not to say too much NOs.
By following this tips and by simply taking advantage of using Cantonese that have so many different ways to say 'no' in different occassion (plus Alyssa cannot yet pronounce 'Ng' (that means no in combination with other words in cantonese). Alyssa picked up the 'no' word finally by interacting with English speaking kids here. Mami even heard her saying some babbling sentences imitating the other kids (e.g. she wanted to get a book from an older kid in a library and then was told off by the older kid with sentence like 'no, you cannot have it') when she was on her own. But of course, she said something like 'no.. blah blah is la.' very funny !
She uses the words 'No' pretty often now to voice out her opinion.
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