How old is the baby able to speak? How to train the baby to speak?

Babies will start babbling when they are 4 months old, and can call words like "dad" and "mom" at around half a year old. When they are over 1 year old, they can already say 3-5 words, and two-year-old babies can sing nursery rhymes.

At what age can babies speak?

Generally speaking, babies may start babbling when they are about 4 months old. At about 7 months old, they may occasionally say "da da" or "dad", but they don't really understand the meaning of these words yet. At about 10 months old, babies will imitate speech sounds, and at this time they are learning to use the tone and intonation of your speech. When the baby is a little over one year old, he will call "dad" and "mom", and he will know the meaning and will not call randomly. At 15 months old, the baby can say 3 to 5 words. At 21 months old, he can say sentences of 3 to 5 words, and at 24 months old, he can say nursery rhymes with two sentences. At 1.5 to 2 years old, the baby's vocabulary may be as many as 200 words, many of which are nouns.

How to train your baby to speak

1. You can read nursery rhymes and stories to your children more often, repeat the readings appropriately, give your children more language stimulation, and increase their impression of pronunciation and sentences.

2. Parents must slow down their speech and speak clearly when talking to their children.

3. In addition to reading and speaking to your child every day, you need to be patient and wait. If parents do enough homework on their child's speaking, the child will often give you many unimaginable surprises!

4. When the child is between one and two years old, parents should give the child the most effective guidance, so that the baby will easily master the method of speaking.

Identify objects in daily life

This method is actually applicable to all stages, and you can point out objects that your baby is interested in at any time.

1.5-2 years old baby learns to speak: 2-year-old baby can not only understand most of what you say to him, but also his vocabulary is expanding rapidly. In this year, he gradually jumps from sentences consisting of 2-3 words (drink juice, mom, want cookies) to sentences consisting of 4, 5 or 6 words (where is the ball, dad? The doll is sitting on my lap). He also begins to use pronouns, although he often uses them incorrectly. However, the baby's vocabulary accumulation is uneven, so don't worry about comparing with other babies.

Reasons why babies don't want to speak

The language environment is confusing and the baby doesn’t know who to learn to speak from. In some families, the parents are not from the same place and speak different dialects, and they don’t usually communicate in Mandarin. For example, the parents speak Mandarin, the grandparents speak Shandong dialect, and the nanny speaks Sichuan dialect. In this language environment, the baby doesn’t know who to imitate or which language to speak.

Tips: This is also the case in our family. We have agreed to mainly communicate in Mandarin, with one or two dialects thrown in occasionally. This way, the baby has a main object of learning and imitation, and also has a rich language environment.