language question, how to teach a toddler to say "me" instead of "you"?

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Ds is 17 months old, he can say mine but not me.

He says "carry you" or "help you" instead of carry me and help me, he is copying me as I say "do you want me to carry/help you?"

Do I need to do anything to encourage him to start saying carry/help me or will it just come naturally?

He's bilingual but me/mig (me in Swedish) is grammatically the same.

You can immediately repeat what he says, but use "Me" instead of "You", (then do what he is asking after you have corrected his sentence/question). Our daughter had speech delay but has now caught up to within ‘normal’ range after a year of speech therapy and this is what we have been doing for the last year amongst other things; Repeating the single word/phrase/sentence the child says, and adding an extra word when a word was missing, or more recently, repeating our child's sentence but using the correct grammar and inserting any missing 'small' words such as "and", "is", and "the". She began by repeating these correctly (copying us) and then eventually to speak correctly spontaneously.

One example was she was saying "I are" instead of "I am" and we cracked that simply by saying "I am ..." whenever she used the wrong word and she now says "I am..." more or less 100% of the time. We never actually had the standard (and completely normal) me/you confusion with my daughter, but only because we had already started using this 'repeat and add/correct a word' technique before she was ever able to put two words togther (she was still using pointing and saying single words at 2 years), so she learned to use "Me" correctly more or less from the start of her speech development, but I know confusion over me/you is very common, due to the way we learn to talk by copying what we hear others say.

Me clapping, you clapping is a great idea thanks :)

I'll try adding extra words slowly ;)

I feel like I could be doing language all wrong :( all the other milestones I just thought oh well he'll eventually walk/sit/roll over properly but I do worry that he won't "get" English.

Thanks for all the help :)

Ds struggled with pronouns which threw me a bit as dd was talking fluently at 17 months with no errors. At 2.8, he still says mine instead of I but otherwise he just picked it up by being around us and chatting lots. We never correct, only model.

Wow, my DD is nearly 17 months old and only has one recognisable word (Mama for Mummy), plus a few I understand (eg Gaa for animals) - and she is monolingual.

My DS said "you" e.g. "Mummy hold you" until he was nearly three, I think. He just got it in the end through listening to how other people talk.

He now says "I aren't" and "I were" instead of "I'm not" and "I was."

Also, all the Swedish people I've ever met have most certainly "got" English!

don't worry it will all work out over time - my LO did the same with me/you and still uses funny little quirks such as 'last earlier' for last time/earlier and 'come to meet you up' for come to meet you/pick you up. He also gets 'pindles and needles' in his arm...

Awww, love 'pindles and needles'. DS does things ' by mine ownself' which I am dreading going. He also has headups instead of hiccups and asks us to 'cuddle mine all up'.