Personal anecdote, since day one me and my wife have been speaking to our baby girl like she is our best friend. For example in the mornings I’d never let my daughter just mong out in front of the TV while making breakfast. I bought a montessori step so she can climb up and stand next to me as I wash vegetables, cut bread, fry eggs, brew coffee, etc. and I talk to her non stop. I name everything I touch, I involve her by making her hold items, press buttons etc and her speech development is phenomenal for her age. She is 17 months now and speaks German to me, English to my wife and Gujarati to her grandmother. She can’t speak normally yet but she picked up in all three languages enough vocabulary already to say exactly what she wants or if something is not right. She counts beyond 10 in two languages and knows to say words in German to me and in English to my wife. We can point at an item in succession and she’d say it in the correct language depending on who pointed to it. It’s amazing, I see other kids at her age and they literally can barely say 5 words.
