Did you know that babies start to learn a language even before they are born?
If you meet their look, they'll recognize your voice. Every day is an opportunity to learn. In the first few months of life, a baby learns to understand your emotional tone and respond to your smile.
By 12 months, newborns can follow simple voice directions. Let's find out more here.
What Should You Know When Your Child Understands Language?
Babies are born without language skills, yet they learn quickly.
Babies can hear by the second trimester and start responding to voices by the sixth or seventh month. After birth, your infant will notice pitch and volume changes in your voice. They're looking at how your speech indicates happiness, grief, love, fear, anxiety, and anger, even when you don't know what the words represent.
They listen to what you say. These skills help them to understand what you're saying.
When Infants Understand Words And Instructions
Birth to the first month
- Observe your sense & voice
- Develop a strong bond
- Develop a sense of security from your response to their cries and hunger cues
2-3 months
- Calm down on hearing mother voice
- Communicating through smile
- start making cooing sound to communicate
4–7 months
- Learn to respond to their name
- Pick up on the emotional tone in your voice more
- Start mumbling and "conversing" by screaming, kicking legs, chatting, or laughing.
8–12 months