But before memorizing and pronouncing the words of a language, it is clear that people can already begin to distinguish them, captures their meanings: table, coffee, telephone, distracted, yellow, sigh, spaghetti bolognese, window, joy, one, two, three, nine, ten, music, wine, cotton dress, tickling, crazy, and one day I discovered that Yue liked to be kissed in the neck. Then she took off her ruffle strap dress with nothing underneath, and I was bewildered by such whiteness. For a second I imagined that she was not a woman to touch here or there, but that she would challenge me to touch the whole skin at once.
