A 3-Year-Old Learning English

I find children’s language acquisition to be absorbingly fascinating. I have no reason to believe my elder daughter is particularly gifted, but I marvel all the same at her learning process.

Almost a year ago, I blogged about her language development to 26 months in my post, “A 2-Year-Old Learning English.”

I had noticed over the past several months that her grasp of pronouns, particularly “this, these, it” and her use of “mine,” and “my” had become much more fluent.

This week, about a month after her 3rd birthday, I noticed that she is correctly using the pronoun “I.” For example, “I like these noodles,” or “I don’t like that.”

I wonder how long she’s been using “I,” but I didn’t notice?