is there an average time frame when a quaker starts to build it's vocabulary ? it took squeak about 4 short weeks to learn
hello
whatcha doin'
come on
quack (not the quaker style but quack quack as a word)
kiss noises .
wolf whistle
but school seems to be out for the last 2 weeks (no new words)
can anyone give time frames of when their fids became fluent in english ?
thanks heaps in advance

wow, I think you will find they are all different. Poppy will go a couple weeks and not pick up anything new (that I hear) and then he will surprise me with 5 or six new words or phrases within a couple of days. He is a big time closet talker, but if he is in the mood, he will talk to me.

Tiki's the same as Poppy, I think he practices on his own for a while before randomly coming out with new stuff and often a new word each day for a few days, then nothing for a while, just because we dont here them dosn't mean they are not listening and taking things in. Some of the stuff Tiki says I didn't even teach him, where as the stuff I do he does not always say. But once he has perfected his words he is mostly activly talking at sundown time for some reason, rattling of all the words he knows (including new words I didn't know he knew.)

Kiwi started talking at 9 weeks and then was non stop for a few years. He hasn't really said anything in the last year. I know he can talk because in the last two weeks he said a couple of his old words....