But Can You Write Baby Talk?

Awww!!! Who doesn't love babies? (Besides the vast majority of my friends.) Me personally, I love babies right when they're getting up into that age where they're talking and making little gibberish noises. I'd have full out conversations with my nieces and nephew when they'd be gabbing up and storm, but it never made sense on my end what they were saying. I just thought it was funny to watch them as they got so excited to talk with me. I guess, at least according to this article, that they may have actually been making sense all along! Huh! Who knew!



According to this article, baby chatter is actually a language all of its own. The concept is interesting and it piqued my interest because my newest niece is very deeply in her chattering stage and learning new words everyday. I think that this stage in language development is vital to children learning language (though I am clearly not an expert.)



I can definitely see myself agreeing with this article (especially since I've always been a firm believer in speaking proper English and like adults to babies. [Though I'll be the first to admit that I start making the noises around a cute baby.]) In all of my experience with babies, I've never seen a child in my family have a hard time grasping the concept of language, but we always spoke to them like normal people. Most of the time. I completely agree though that babies have a language all of there own! Hell! My cousin and I still speak ours on occasions!



I didn't particularly wish to go and learn more about the topic, just because of the time crunch as well as I don't believe it's something I really need to know. Babies have gibber jabbered for ages and they're going to continue gabbing before they learn language. There currently isn't a way to decipher what their meanings are, so I don't truly see a reason to go out and learn more about it.



This topic can relate to the world because the world is always going to have little munchkins running underfoot, so it's nice to have a better grasp on how they learn language and what's totally normal for them. I believe this concept applies to all language-learning infants and it will continue to apply towards them for a long time.



Well, that's all I got for you tonight guys! I'm sorry that it was a bit rushed and sloppy, I'll have something better next time!



Signing Off!



Juliana Mandile