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Focus – Learning Language

How We're Wired

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How Does a Baby Learn a Language?

Language is made up of multiple steps. We think of it maybe just as we think of something and we speak, but there's quite a few processes that occur to get there. So at the beginning, producing just one word for a child is really effortful because those connections are not very strong. But then they will be able to produce any words and sentences and paragraphs and just talk and talk and talk without stopping. As they do. Yeah.

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