For me it's a different angle: it's so I can understand what my toddler wants! We've been teaching ASL (and thus English) since she was 6 months old. This is n

For me it's a different angle: it's so I can understand what my toddler wants! We've been teaching ASL (and thus English) since she was 6 months old. This is not our native tongue. But even at 2 now, it's very difficult to understand a lot of what she's saying. Having her sign along makes it somewhat easier, but it's still a guessing game. At this age, her speech and signs aren't always very clear. Having an even larger vocabulary in another language would make it even harder to guess what she wants! We'll start teaching her our native tongue as she gets a little bit older.