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My daughter is 3.5 years old. She doesn't sound few letters like 'L' but 'N' instead. But I believe she will learn that by time.
However few weeks back I noticed that she speaks from her nose (nasal speech). The way she speaks words ending with 'N' or 'M' are different. Eg. she says Rumb instead of Rum.
Is there any practice or speech therapy we can bring in daily practice to improve her way of speaking?
I suggest you take your daughter to a speech therapist for an evaluation. It's possible that she's going through a normal stage of speech development, or it's possible that she needs a little intervention. Either way, I think you need a professional opinion before this goes on any longer.
Kids at that age often have trouble sounding out words, my own daughter used to pronounce 'girl' and a few other words with a 1950's New York accent.
One thing I used to do as an ESL teacher with young Chinese students who couldn't pronounce certain sounds was to find rhymes and tongue twisters for them to say. If it was short and funny it helped them remember and with enough recitations they usually started to improve.
For your childs problem, something like "Rum, tum, tum, my belly is a drum!" while drumming the words out on your belly would do nicely. With N, "Nine naughty nobles", isn't as funny but is easy to remember.
I realized that to teach my daughter L sound, first I need to understand the difference between N sound and L sound. I found these 2 videos very helpful to explain me the difference;
I believe she'll improve with practice.
