8 Astonishing Ways Your Baby is Actually a Little Genius!

Last Updated on April 4, 2020

8. Babies Can Detect A New Language

You may already know that baby brains are perfectly able to learn more than one language at the same time, but no one really knows how babies can do this. Well, not until recent research from the University of British Columbia has been published.

The study found that infants as young as 4 months old already possess the ability to detect that a new language is being spoken through the observation of visual cues that include the rhythm and shape of the speaker’s mouth as well as their facial movement.

What’s more, babies growing up in a bilingual home have the advantage of being able to maintain the necessary capacities for separating and learning more than two languages, in addition to having a longer length of time when their brain is flexible enough to master different languages, compared to babies who grew up hearing only one language.

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