at what age you started speaking????

Hello akash :) Your discussion really inspired me. Of course I don't remember those early days when I started speaking, but my mom told me it's a pretty funny story. Apearently, i was able to speak my very first words at about 11 months but, as it was to be expected, i couldn't pronounce them correctly. And , evidently, it made them laugh a lot and me realize i'm doing it wrong. So I stopped speaking. My parents got worried and they were ready to take me to a doctor, when one day they discovered that at night, before falling asleep and in the morning before i called them to my room i was babbling non-stop, trying to pronounce things right :)) Their worries were half gone. I could speak, only I didn't want to. When they asked a pediatrician if I suffer of anything, he replied laughing that the only thing i suffer of is too much ambition :)) And that i was sure to talk in front of them again when I'll be satisfied with the results I got. He was right. By the time i was 1 and a half, i was talking their ears of, telling them over and over the stories they had read to me or the cartoons I had seen, in my own manner with what i understood, of course. Don't imagine i could speak perfectly by the time i was 1 and 1/2. I was just...satisfied with my results enough to talk in their presence :)

^~^ I started to speak at the same age with you. It is really very late, and my mom had to worry about it for a time.

Probaly same with me. My memory goes back to four years old. I remember learning to make the L sound. We lived on a lake and I don't remember how I said the word before. So probably 2 and a half or 3.

I have no idea at what age I started to speak and I can’t ask my mother because she’s overseas at the moment but I can tell you my daughter who is now eight years old started saying a few broken words at around a year. She was making sounds before then trying to speak but I recall her saying, ‘Dada’ at around twelve months of age.

If you're talking about my first word, I believe I said my first word when I was a year old. My mom told me this. Anyway, I started speaking coherently when I was like 3 although of course my speech was still telegraphic but it made sense.

My mom keeps on telling me that I started speaking when I was 9 months old. She reminded me of the exact word which I uttered and it was in Filipino dialect. She also told me at that time I was holding a bottle of coke. When my mother took the bottle from my hands I said, "No Way!" This was spoken in Filipino of course but I just translated it. ^_^

I think before I turned 2 years old. Because I started going to school at 3. I think I speak fluently when I started schooling, because they accepted me. lol. On the other hand, I believe I have been speaking 2 languages when I started schooling - Native language which is Filipino(I'm from Philippines) and English. My nanny talks to me in English. I have a history about my nickname getting changed because she pronounced it wrong while calling me in English. Plus I started learning table manners in English. *thumbs up for being bilingual at the age of 3*

I started saying my first words when I was a little bit over one year old :)