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my best advice is to always speak to your kid like they are an adult. My daughter is not quite three but speaks as well as (or better than) most four year olds I meet. The reason is that A) we never, ever spoke "baby talk" to her (no "wook at duh widdle baby, she so cutesy wootsy!") and we've always talked to her in full sentences and addressed her like she was an intelligent human being. No "Baby want bottle? Mommy want hug!" She'll turn 3 in March and I get comments every single day about how big her vocabulary is and how complex her sentence structures are.
I also think that it's never too early to correct them for grammar, etc. Certainly you don't want to be mean about it or even super strict, but the longer you allow bad habits to linger, the harder they will be to correct.
My point is, talk to your kid at the level you want them to speak. If you talk dumb, they'll learn dumb. That's just my 2 cents.
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