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At 4 months, your baby will likely babble or even copy some of the babbling sounds he’s heard you make. His cries may also sound different, depending on whether he’s hungry, tired or in pain. Trusted Source Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Important Milestones: Your Baby by Four Months See All Sources [1] By the end of month 6 Mayo Clinic, Infant and Toddler Health, Language Development: Speech Milestones for Babies, March 2023. From birth, babies listen to the words and sounds all around them and begin to sort out their meanings, the first step in language acquisition. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Important Milestones: Your Child by One Year, December 2022. American Academy of Pediatrics, My Baby Is Turning a Year Old This Month. Should She Be Talking by Now?, July 2021.

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We believe you should always know the source of the information you're reading.Learn more about our editorial and medical review policies. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Important Milestones: Your Baby by Four Months, November 2022. | Show in the article Your little one may also start to mimic other people’s sounds and gestures, and understand what "no" means (but whether he’ll listen is another thing altogether). All of this brings baby closer, day by day, to saying his first word. By the end of month 12Use names rather than pronouns. Whenever possible, name the people you’re talking about rather than using the shorthand of a pronoun: "This is Mommy’s coffee" or "Here is Sarah’s bear" are both clearer and easier for babies to understand than "This is my coffee" or "Here is your bear." Believe it or not, it’s just as appropriate to hear a child’s first words at either end of that age range — or at any age in between. Every child develops at his own pace.

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From coos and growls to sing-songy combinations of vowels and consonants, your baby'svocalizing and verbal experimentation may sound just as adorable as it is nonsensical. But listen closely and one day you’ll hear it: the first real word. By the time your child is 1 year old, he can likely say at least one word like, "mama," "dada” or "bye-bye," according to the AAP. Your babymay also try to say the words he hears you say, as well as change the tone of words — all of which is starting to sound something like real speech! When do babies say their first word? By month 18, your toddler’s vocabulary can start to take off — he may learn about one new word per week, according to the AAP. By the age of 2, he may be able to string a few words together, like “All gone.” No matter how much or little your child is talking, don’t expect perfect pronunciation for a few years at least. The word “apple” may sound like “owl,” for example, says Gina Posner, M.D., F.A.A.P., a board-certified pediatrician practicing at MemorialCare Medical Group in Fountain Valley, California, and a member of the What to Expect Medical Review Board. “A stranger might not understand it, but the parent will,” she says. When to talk to your doctorBabies start talking — that is, attempt to express themselves in words with meaning — anywhere between 9 and 14 months. Repetition is your friend. Repetition is your friend. (Get it?) Saying things not once but twice, singing the same songs over and over, pointing out the same flower pot every time you pass it on the street … all that repetition, boring as it may seem to you, is incredibly interesting to your little one. It helps reinforce your child’s growing understanding of how a particular sound attaches to a particular thing — in other words, what individual words really mean. Language delays, which affect about 1 out of 5 children, according to the AAP. Sometimes, this delay is only minor, and may resolve itself with a little extra attention from a parent or caregiver. In other cases, children may benefit from working with a speech and language therapist. Sing songs and rhyme rhymes. Your baby will learn valuable language skills from the simple rhythms and silly repetitions of nursery rhymes and songs, says the Mayo Clinic.

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When it comes to speech, the window of what’s considered "normal" is wide open. Your child may start to use sound-words like "mi" for "milk" or "dat" for "that" (as in, "I want that!") as early as 7 months. Or your child might not start to say words or word-sounds until as late as 18 months. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Important Milestones: Your Baby by Nine Months, December 2022. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Important Milestones: Your Baby by Six Months, December 2022. | Show in the article Gina Posner, M.D., F.A.A.D., Pediatrician at MemorialCare Medical Group in Fountain Valley, CA, and Member of the What to Expect Medical Review Board. Your baby is starting to experiment with making sounds of his own — including some impressively long ones, like "ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma" and "ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).Sometime around the first birthday, most toddlers can begin following simple commands "like give me that" or "put that down," but only if they’re issued one step at a time.

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Long before he speaks his first words, your baby will learn to understand words, but understanding concepts and directions takes a little longer.

My First Words is an attractive puzzle for children +1 years old, developed to teach them how to say the name of common objects that surround them. Research has shown that taking a couple of minutes a day to read or play with your baby, encouraging them to repeat some words, will dramatically increase their language skills, as well as strengthen your emotional bonds. Includes more than 120 vocalized words in 3 languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese), you can even use the game to learn languages. Some perfectly normal babies don’t say a recognizable word until 18 months, whereas some babies begin to communicate in word-sounds (like "ba-ba" for bye-bye, bottle or ball and "da-da" for dog, dad or doll) as early as 7 months.