How Do You Train A Parakeet To Talk?
• Make sure you have a bond with your bird and that it trusts you. If not, training it to talk will not work, or will take longer than necessary. Teaching it to step up onto your finger might be a good idea because you will retain its focus. • Start talking to your bird on a regular basis. Use “keywords” like “good night” and “good morning” at specific occasions, when you do the actions. Parakeets respond best to words with hard consonants, like k, t, or w. Traditional phrases like “hello” are harder for parakeets to learn. Choose one or two phrases to start with and repeat them over and over. If you would like your parakeet to associate a phrase with a certain time of day, then you can only say the phrase at that time. However, if you don’t care when your parakeet says it, you can continually repeat it over and over. • Repeat the keywords until the bird shows interest. This means the bird is learning, so keep the rhythm and don’t give up. Try to say it slowly because parakeets tend to
