When Do Kids Usually Start Talking. Apart from babbling around 6 months of age, when babies start to play with language sounds, babies won’t say their official first words for a year or so. But babies start learning how to speak right after they’re born, mainly by watching and listening to you and other people.
However, it’s closer to two years when babies really begin “talking”—i.e., stringing their words together into simple sentences. Babies often go backwards before they go forwards. While earlier sounds were mostly vowels, around this time is when consonants start to emerge.