[31] How A One Year Old Learns To Speak

Summary:

• As an Applied Linguistics student, I always looked forward to the day I had my own kids so I could study their language development.
• I’ve been closely watching and taking notes on my one year old son’s language which has been eye-opening.
• Academics are frankly wrong when they dismiss the idea of applying 1st language learning to 2nd language learning.
• Children are not superhuman.
• Children attempt to imitate what they hear and don’t care if they get it wrong.
• My son learned sign language at 10 months old.
• Listening comprehension precedes speaking in the case of children.
• Prominent sounds correspond directly to meaning.

Related blog post:

I wrote about this in detail here.

Resources:

Check out the Little Pim series on Amazon if you have kids (it’s a children’s series created by Paul Pimsleur’s daughter).