when did you learn to speak?

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I learned to speak only a few short months after being born. I learned to speak so freakishly early that I scared people ar my brothers preschool. My mom likes to tell the story of how she was talking about me and some guy didn't believe her, so he went to taunt me and I spoke.

They tell me that I didn't utter a word until 18 months at which point I started talking in complete sentences. My mother said that my first word was "I want milk".

I was babbling when I was a infant and a year despite my deafness but then one day I wasn't speaking, no laughing, no facial expressions, nothing. All I did was cry. Would a NT deaf baby stop babbling too and stop making sounds just like I did?

I started talkin when i was 6 as i was non-verbal beforehand.

Wow, Shades. That's very early.

I learned when I was about 1 or 2, at least to speak basic words. I was very curious as a kid.

I was really early with speech too...I was 5 months old when I said my first word...it was really freaky! My mom had been on the phone ordering something and I guess I was in my baby seat. My dad walked in and was doing the "parent talk" to me (babbling, cooing...you know). I said M_A_T_V_E Matve! (that was my last name). My mother dropped the phone when she heard me and my dad had me repeat it into a tape recorder. No one believed him until he played the tape. By one, I was speaking 3-4 word sentences. By 2, I was reading (obviously Dr. Seuss and such). My mom said letters fascinated me and I would beg her to read to me non-stop be it books, newspapers, signs on the road...whatever
I am an avid reader now and love language. It is like math to me...all patterns.

I could talk at a very young age. I would ramble on about just about anything, mostly talking to my dolls. I would use big words & my mom had no clue where I got them from. (probably my grandma, she babysat me from birth to about 4, & would teach me all kinds of stuff.)
I remember her telling me I came in from the back yard, with the neighbors dog, & said:
"Nana, Mikes dog wants to play with me, & mike is not home right now, so is it ok if she comes in to play?" (I was only 3) Now, looking back on that, I notice I didn't invite other children over, but I did invite a dog over. Luckily, Mike always knew to check my grandma's house for his dog.

According to the report in my baby book, I said my first word at 6 months. I was speaking well in German (my first language) by two years of age and learned English at six.