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Learning to have a conversation is part of language development. But by the time they’re two years old, someone who doesn’t know them well should be able to understand about half of what they say. Your child’s pronunciation will often be hard to understand. For example, your child might say ‘tar’ instead of ‘car’, or your child might leave off the ends of words altogether, like ‘ca’ instead of ‘cat’. Your child will use a range of speech sounds, but it’s normal for toddlers to pronounce words differently from the way adults say them. Their word combinations will consist mainly of nouns and some verbs (‘dog eat’, ‘car go’).

They’ll use only a few descriptive words at this age – for example, ‘big’ or ‘red’.

You’ll notice your child using new words nearly every day.Īt around two years, your child will start putting two words together – for example, ‘mummy car’ or ‘me go’. There will probably be a lot of made-up words too.īy 18 months, your child might know and use 20-100 meaningful words. Your child might also enjoy saying the same word over and over. Language development includes learning to use words and sentences.Īt around 12 months, your child will start using words to talk to you.

very simple explanations like ‘The sun is out, so we need our hats’.

familiar phrases like ‘Give me the ball’.

This is when they start to realise they’re a separate person with their own ideas.ĭuring this year, your child will understand: A few months later, they’ll begin to understand and use ‘I’ to refer to themselves. For example, they might call all animals ‘doggie’.Īt around 15 months, your child will point to things and ask you to name them.Īt around 18 months, your child will refer to themselves by name.

For example, they’ll understand the words for:īut your child might use the same word to refer to different things. Understanding and language development in children 1-2 yearsĪt around 12 months, your child will understand the names of things they see or use often. Adjectives come next – for example, ‘big’ and ‘blue’.Īt this age, your child uses meaningful words, made-up words, sounds and gestures to communicate. Eventually they’ll understand and say a few verbs – for example, ‘eat’ and ‘run’. Vocabulary and language development in children 1-2 yearsĪt 1-2 years, your child will learn to use and understand more words and more types of words.Īt first they’ll understand and say mostly nouns – for example, ‘dog’ and ‘bus’.