I bet Alizees daughter can speak french better than me

Matrix · #1 10-20-2006, 01:41 AM

2yrs old and i have no doubt Anny Lee can speak french better than me. lol

RadioactiveMan · #2 10-20-2006, 01:42 AM

Most kids can start speaking at one year, right? I'm not sure how well they can speak at 2 but a cousin of mine could barely speak at age five. She was extremely late of course, but it's interesting (to me anyway).

maareek · #3 10-20-2006, 01:45 AM

No worries. With few exceptions you have to be bad at something before you can be good at it. Keep working at it and you'll get it. It's not exactly easy, but if you work at it you can learn to speak it well and then you'll be glad of all the effort.

HibyPrime · #4 10-20-2006, 01:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Matrix

2yrs old and i have no doubt Anny Lee can speak french better than me. lol

It takes adults years to learn a new language, just be patient.

On the otherhand, if you can completely immerse yourself in the language (ie. move to france), you should be fluent in a year or so.

Matrix · #5 10-20-2006, 01:47 AM

What's usually the first words a french baby says?

maareek · #6 10-20-2006, 01:52 AM

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What's usually the first words a french baby says?

Garbled gibberish, like every other baby in the world. ;p I actually tend to like to look at it that way, since we all start out knowing the same language (though it happens to be none, technically) we all can learn any language out there. Just my little semi-inspritational thought of the day.

But to answer the question I'd assume it's like most babies and it's a word they've heard and attempt to imitate up to that point. So probably prere or mere or a cuss word.

Matrix · #7 10-20-2006, 01:58 AM

Hahahahha.. a cuss word..lol

RMJ · #8 10-20-2006, 02:00 AM

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Originally Posted by maareek

But to answer the question I'd assume it's like most babies and it's a word they've heard and attempt to imitate up to that point. So probably prere or mere or a cuss word.

Yea... how funny it would be if Anny-Lee's first word is merde. :P

atra201 · #9 10-20-2006, 02:01 AM

yeah at 2years old i dunno she still needs time my nice is 3 and she still can't say the si,plist word correctly we need atranslator with her

maareek · #10 10-20-2006, 02:01 AM

Actually I think my first word was damn. I've known several people whose first word was a cuss word.

As far as I can tell it's fairly random what the first word is, though on a large scale I'd imagine it would be a word the child hears often (which would explain why they would say mama or dada [or it's equivalent in whatever language] since most parents say "say hi to mama/dada" or whatever when attempting to coax the child into speaking) and attempts to imitate.

But in isolated cases, it can be some really off the wall word that the child heard once and imitated (possibly even some length later). It just varies from case to case.