Babies learn by example. Talk to her, read to her, sing to her. Use every opportunity you can to talk to her---while driving tell her about where you are going and why. When she's playing, play patty cake. Sing her nursery rhymes. And she is not too young for Baby Einstein. They early videos & books and CDs are for birth to age 3, so now is the time!!

The best way to teach a baby to talk is to talk to her. Tell her what you are doing, talk to her as you change her, bathe her, feed her, play with her. You are her best teacher. Carry on conversations with her even when she is baby babbling. Read to her every day.

Based on my experience:

1) Talk to your child...a lot (even if she really does not understand).

2) Sesame street on PBS has been wonderful to teach numbers and letters...Let the kid watch that program.

(I remember that 13 years ago, when my daughter was 2...I thought of making Alphabet flash cards...while I was making the cards right in front of my kid... she was already reading those out...So, I did not have to use those flash cards).

3) Read a lot to them (Sesame Street also does a good job of teaching them simple words...kids start recognizing words such as UP, DOWN, YES, NO, etc.)