When did you learn to speak?

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Just curious...were you delayed in learning to speak? Early? About normal?

My mom tells me I learned to speak early (though I don't know when, exactly), and that my first word wasn't a word but a three-word sentence.

I didn't speak until just before my third birthday. On my third birthday I was speaking in full sentences. A month after my third birthday, I was speechless again. I needed years of speech therapy, and could not talk properly again until I was about 5 and a half.

I started speaking when I was four and five. I was a late talker due to hearing loss so I had "hearing amnesia" my mom says. I was saying single words before but they were not real words because I didn't know how to say them.

My first sentence was at nine or ten months.

I was normal in terms of when I spoke. I have always had good verbal skills, but had difficulty with basic mathematical calculations when I was in school (I have since sorted ways of doing it quickly as an adult and it is no longer an issue).

It was recorded a little after my 2nd birthday that I was delayed with speech. I said only about 10 single words. By the time I could speech without my mom having to "translate" what I said (I spoke fast and had poor articulation), I was 7 or 8.

My son had very few words (compared to the "norm") at 18 months, but by the time he was 2.5, he had the verbal skills of many kindergarteners. People looked at him like some kind of prodigy.

My daughter had no words at 2. Mostly only grunts and squeals. By the age of 3 with lots of therapy, she was using 2-3 word phrases fairly regularly. Her speech was very difficult to understand due to multiple articulation problems. Now, at the age of 7, she is noticably ahead of her peers, and most of her artic problems are barely noticeable.

I myself was highly verbal at an early age, but I do not know the specifics.

Early... I'm told I was very much like my son, who started speaking when he was 9 months old, spoke three or four words sentences when he was 12 months old and with whom you could have a normal conversation before age two... And with a clear pronounciation too...

I am told I started speaking at about 11 months. My dad sat me on a hot clothes dryer and I said "It is hot daddy. It is hot." My little sister spoke at just over a year old. I picked her up and she said "No, put me back"

Also, I want to add that the first thing my daughter said that wasn't echolalia or said in response to a cue was "broken moon" when she saw a quarter moon. I think that is a good example of how delayed speech doesn't always mean someone lacks intelligence. Most kids her age wouldn't have even noticed.

2 1/2 years: first words: mama, papa

3 1/4 years: first sentence, just one: "were is my backpack?"
4 years: second sencence and beginning slowely to speak
5 years: beginning to talk to my environment

I don't remember, but my mom always says I spoke very early.

I was a very early speaker, not sure exactly when. But, it was so early that my Mum used to take me to a local supermarket and the shop assistants would place me on the counter and encourage me to spook the customers - a baby talking in sentences used to have them jumping in disbelief. My daughter was exactly the same. I was able to have conversations with her, when she was little over a year old (so obviously not echolalia). At the time, it seemed wonderful and my health visitor wasn't concerned, as she was obviously meeting her milestone. But, I know now that it was actually a red flag for ASD.

I started to speak very early, too. Apparently at around 9 months, but I don't know the details, if it was words or sentences and how fast I learned.
But I was told I was always ahead of my peers in grammar, fluency and variety of expressions.

I learned to speak very early. By the time I was a year old I was speaking full sentences. My first word well after dada and mama was Banan. Which oddly enough is the French pronunciation of the word banana. This is oddly coincidental because I am 1/2 French on my mom's side. Also the first word I learned to spell was pizza because it is my favorite food. I was spelling that well before I was 2 anyways. My parents said that they took me to a restaurant when I was just turning 2 years old and I had my kids menu and crayons. The waitress looked at my parents and said and what does she want to eat and I said I'd like a pizza and soda please. They were astonished! Then my dad looked at me and said now spell pizza and I looked at the waitress and said P I Z Z A! They were so amazed they couldn't believe I could say that whole sentence never mind spell pizza.