My January born 2 year old does not say yes.

[cheesebubble]

His language is not as advanced as many other children his age (I know because I spend a lot of time with children his age or even younger).

It's come on a lot and I'm not concerned about his language development as such to be honest. I'm very proud of him. He grows up bilingual although he only really speaks English but does understand German well.

Anyway, when we ask him: do you want a
biscuit, or do you want to go outside?, he'd never say yes but reacts to it by either repeating the word: biscuit or he'd go to the cupboard and then points and makes the sort of noise that he wants it now haha

When he hears garden, he'd then get his shoes and point to the key box saying keys keys, getting super excited but he simply wouldn't respond with yes.

I might be silly here but is this a cause for concern or is everyone just different and it will come? X

Mine aren't Bilingual but I've heard that they can generally be a bit slower to talk. I think there might be a Bilingual section somewhere on MN.

You could try giving him an option - "garden yes or no? Yes garden or no garden?" etc to see if you can coax it out of him .

Knowing his age - I bet he says no That's partly because kids usually hear "no" more often than "yes" because there's more different ways to say positive statements. Eg you might say "Good Boy!" Or "Super!" instead of "yes, that's good"

I don't think it's something to worry about. You could try and encourage "biscuit please" ?

@LongDivision he would always repeat the word "garden" or just get excited, he wouldn't say yes. If I ask him can you say yes or ja, he can say both but just doesn't answer with it.

@RedGoldAndGreene 100% knows no and does say it, he always says please. Sometimes I don't understand what he says but I do understand he please 😂😅 I probably should have mentioned that but as that's not the issue I didn't haha

My children bilingual German/English as well.

At 2 years old my oldest could speak sentences and translate them, to a fashion. I'd give him something tell him to go and tell Daddy or whoever and he would repeat in appropriate language.

My youngest at 2 years old did not speak in either language and was gone 3 before he spoke in sentences.

Every child is different I think you have no cause for concern