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My son could read the alphabet and recite it at 18 months. He learned this on his own because someone gave him a kid's alphabet book and he kept pointing to things in it and we'd tell him what they were. I think kids are perfectly able to do this stuff by 2, they just need to be exposed to it. For the record, we didn't encourage this behavior or try to push for it, he just really obsessed over that book for ~1 month for some reason.