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Alessandra’s unique language (2 years old)
In two weeks Ali will be 2 years old.
She has such a cute and unique language of her own that I want to share and remember it. Trig, our nanny and I pretty much understand most of what she says, and if we don’t sometimes Raffi can translate for us. Other people, including family who see her often, have a bit of a tougher time.
Ali speaks in full sentences, and talks basically nonstop all day, but you need to know her language to comprehend her stories.
Consider this your English-Alessandra dictionary:
open me = AP-eh-gee
this way = fee-fay
milk = bock
water = wa-war
soup = bup
cup = puck
up there = up dare
home = hoe
pretend = pee-tend
Raffi = daddy
smoothie = shoo-shee
peanut butter = bee-bee-baa-baa
applesauce = ap-ah-toe
The best one of all:
Alessandra = Ah-ca-ca (seriously!!)
Here are some of her favorite things to say:
“I want to eat it!”
“I did it!”
“Oooohhhh, it’s hot!”
“I want to eat it in my mouth!”
“Nooooo… it’s just pretend.”
“I wanna give it a kiss!” (she kisses everything from people to dolls to pieces of paper to bouncy balls)
“Watch this!”
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Very cute, but as an early child intervention specialist and Speech Pathologist in the schools, it looks like you may want to start focusing more on her articulation skills. There are many sounds she should have by age 2 (including the w, h, p, b, and m), and she’s demonstrating many errors which may become habitualized and could significantly affect her ability to be understood. I hope you are providing good speech models for her to follow and helping her with these early sounds!
Thank you for your comment. I honestly assumed that her pronunciation was normal developmentally, but now that I know it’s not I will work on her articulation. I speak very clearly, and she can make the W, H, P, B, and M sounds. However, while she says “mouth” perfectly, the word “milk” comes out as “bock”. She says “home” just fine, but “hand” comes out “haaa”. Aside from speaking clearly and having her repeat words slowly, is there anything else I should be doing?
“I want to eat it with my mouth!”
Now that’s a girl after my own heart.
I second what Amy has said. When our daughter was 2 we thought her own “language” was super cute as well. It wasn’t until she turned 3 at the end of the year that we panicked about her speech both in pronunciation and comprehension. Our local school district’s early childhood education has evaluated her and she qualifies for free speech therapy. It might be worth looking into to see if your district offers something like this. I’m glad my daughter doesn’t go to K until fall 2017 so we have plenty of time to correct and help her with her speech.
Everyone I talked with just assured me it was “second child syndrome” but i knew something wasn’t right and I’m glad we had her tested.
She doesn’t turn 2 until next week, and she speaks a lot more than her same-aged friends so I assume part of it is that. She rushes and tries to keep up in conversations with older kids. I will keep an eye on it though and appreciate the comment. If she doesn’t correct a lot of these words by this fall (age 2.5) then I will have her evaluated. Thanks for the insight.
My daughter is 3 1/2 and she would always say her “c’s” as “t’s”. I would kid around and correct her (letting her think I thought she was funny) and literally one day she started saying it right. I think right now, it is a cute thing!
She seems adorable (as does your son)!
Can’t wait to see the new addition!