mine is about 6mos oldandrecently started to say "whatcha doin".. I took him home with me to my parents for the weekend and he was inthekitchen with my mom and while she wascleaning uopthe trash one of the dogs gotinto he said" whatcha doin over there" we were so suprised since he is so young and where he got the over there part..but its really hard totell when they will talk its usually when decide that got something to say