Language is a human instinct. Babies have an irresistible urge to imitate the human voice. This is the best time for learning languages.

Brain neurology research, assisted by the latest scanning technology, reveals an explosive growth of language synapses immediately after the birth of a child, peaking in the 8 th month. A rigorous weeding out exercise of redundant synapses follows.

IMPORTANT FINDINGS

1. Language stimulation is critical to the healthy growth of language cell synapses in the first 8 months. Acute deprivation leads to retarded growth and irreversible damage.

Accents A voice recognition system develops when the mother tongue is firmly established as the dominant language. An unfamiliar sound from a new language would be broad banded with the nearest sound in the mother tongue. You imitate what you hear, which is the sound in the mother tongue, not the actual sound in the foreign language, hence all the accents.

A multi-lingual speaker is able to establish a far more sophisticated sound recognition system that is able to pick up fine differences between different languages. Your baby can be a multi-lingual speaker! <Scandinavia>

Languages improves IQ

“In spite of all the recent hype about "making your baby smarter," scientists have not discovered any special tricks for enhancing the natural wiring phase in children's brain development. The one form of stimulation that has been proven to make a difference is language: infants and children who are conversed with, read to, and otherwise engaged in lots of verbal interaction show somewhat more advanced linguistic skills than children who are not as verbally engaged by their caregivers. Because language is fundamental to most of the rest of cognitive development, this simple action—talking and listening to your child—is one of the best ways to make the most of his or her critical brain-building years. ”

ZERO TO THREE: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families , an NGO in USA

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