Do you know what letters the children start saying before? We explain what vowels will be part of their first words.
Easy: First letters babies learn to pronounce
Before starting to speak, the vowels are the first thing babies learn to emit and usually appear in this order: AIR.
Then they start mixing them with their first consonants:
1. The P (“pa-pa-pa”, the little one will say, and we will think he is saying “papa”).
2. The G (“gugugu”; “water” is one of his first words).
3. And the B (“bubu”, “bababa”, will tell us)
Difficult: the pronunciation it takes for children to master
The most difficult letters are undoubtedly double consonants. Children will master them long after they say their first words.
1. The tr (“papajando”, Marina responds when asked where her father is).
2. And the dr (her friend Pedro can be “Perrrro” until well into his 6 or 7 years).
3. It can also cost them the S at the beginning of the syllable (they usually make a mixture between S and Z that is very characteristic of children’s speech.