Listening to a language is our main source of it and it is what helps us learn to speak it well.
The first big difference between how children and adults learn is the huge amount of listening available to children from the first moment they are born. In the first four years of life, children listen to up to 17,000 hours of the new language - they are surrounded by it.
All the objects and activities around them take on an auditory form over time, which is a kind of name tag. And children have the great advantage that everything they hear around them also happens around them. So they always have a context: a life situation, a story their parents read to them at bedtime or a fairytale they watch on TV. New words have their place and are alive and useful to them. They don't learn them like some boring list from a textbook.
They simply accept it and try to use it.
For children, the words are directly connected to what is happening around them. In the background, the brain quite naturally evaluates and better remembers words that are repeated more often. It knows they are important and therefore learns them earlier. The words are always in sentences, they have their own emotional colour, their own melody, along with the images, tastes and smells they describe. All of this work is the domain of the right hemisphere of our brains.
Children don't think much about the language and just take it as a given. They simply accept it and try to use it as it is.
To speak well, really well, you need to listen a lot to people who already speak the language in the context of real or imagined situations. You should listen to the language every day or better still, several times a day - the more the better.
That's why at Mooveez you first see and listen to every new conversation or story as a video based on situations you are very familiar with from your own life.
This is why we also constantly create new videos from real-life situations where you have the opportunity to listen a lot within some context, the same way small children do. This triggers our natural ability to understand and then use language because:
We are all capable of learning to speak any language. And we have proven this by learning our own native language.
