Ming from Agents of Speech argues that telling parents to just talk more doesn't work unless the child actually wants to interact with you. Bland narration becomes background noise. Instead, develop shared interests so your child has a real reason to talk.
That's why the conventional knowledge on social media or if you go to the ASHA American Speech and Hearing association or whatever it's called, the advice is quite vanilla. It's telling you to speak more, explain, describe everything as much as you can. And I feel like the main point that is lacking is that advice will only work if your child is already playing a lot with you and enjoys your company. To prompt a child to speak something that he or she doesn't even want to share is besides the point because it serves no language function. It's just background noise. So imagine every time you do something, someone says something behind your back, just describing something as you go along. It's going to help you to pick up the language up to a certain point. It's going to become distracting, annoying and also it's also like you're trying to get them off your back and so on. So you have to think about how to have the same interest as the kid, which is my second point.
