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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: When Did Your Toddler Start Talking?
I'm so exciting to see my toddler start speaking, but it seems that it takes too long.
at home i speak to my toddler in French and English and my wife speaks with her in Korean.
don't you think she will get confused ?
11 years 15 weeks ago in Family & Kids - China
My kid said his first word at seven weeks. Mum. He has continued saying it ever since, only when he is hungry and she is not by his side. He says it till she is. Nobody believed me so I recorded it on my camera phone at nine weeks. Anyone who sees the recording can recognize it's true. He didn't start saying Dada till seven months, so it's clear where his priorities lie.
I wouldn't worry about your kid being confused by a mixture of languages though, I read that for the first six months of our lives our brains work at genius level. Doesn't stop most of them from eating their boogers though.
I can not remember a time that they were not talking
I think they were about 5 months old
as Martian said the number of languages will not hurt them at all
Enjoy your Child and worry more about the teen years ahead
Apparently in the first month of pregnancy. "Baby do not like you!" At least that's what the wife tells me.
My now 28 month old daughter, started speaking baby words around 9 months. She started speaking Guangdonghua sentences around 20 months, and individual Putonghua and English words around 18 months. Recently she has started using English sentences but her first language is still Guangdonghua although her English is improving fast. We're not concerned about her Putonghua as that will improve (dramatically) when she goes to kindergarten / primary school. I personally expected her speaking to be slower than average due to her being exposed to three different languages at home, but while she was a little longer 'learning' than average it really was very marginal.
Educational Psychologists discovered years ago that up until about the age of 6 children don't learn languages they 'absorb' them, so as long as the languages are being regularly spoken around them and they are being encouraged to speak them, they will absorb them totally naturally without any confusion. Of course later in life it is common for a child to rebel against the minority language and then the minority language adult speaker has to have strict self-discipline and ensure the child uses the minority language or does not get what he / she seeks.