We all speak one. every day. People communicate with one another using language. From the thousands of words we know, we cagily find the words we need and arrange them into sentences to give our opinions or make requests some researchers who study language acquisition . Like the welt known writer on language Steven pinker estimate that people know about 50,000 to 60,000 words by the age of 20. That is roughly equivalent to leaning eight or nine words per day from birth.
10 This amazing process begins at birth. Children who have not yet learned to speak listen to their mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters talk to them. This early exposure introduces the child to the sounds of their language. This is when they begin to acquire their regional accent. We are all amazed at how little American babies sound American, while little English babies speak with a British accent.
15 By the time children become three, they have usually acquired many thousands of words. Some words children have heard multiple times, so it is not surprising that they know them. Other words children may hear only once, but they
20 retain the meaning. Some words are difficult, and the child has to struggle to say the word but still has no problem remembering its meaning.
25 Learning a foreign language may be difficult, but it is important to remember that people are born to communicate through speech. It is a gift we all have.