Recently my 7 month old grandson who speaks fluent “baby” was around several children that were just beginning to speak “child”. We had them interact verbally to try to get the older ones to translate the baby gibberish but they failed miserably. Didn’t seem to understand a single word.
We rewarded them by buying ice cream cones and then throwing them all away. Bet they try harder next time.
That was very wily of you.
When my daughter began to speak, she spoke Russian.
“Want milk?”
“Da!”
“Up?”
“Da!”
“Here’s your babo!”
“Da!”
Pretty good for six months.