Language learning begins with listening. Children are greatly different in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking, and later starters are often long listeners. Most children will “obey” spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the work “obey” is hardly exact as a description of the eager and delighted co-operation usually shown by the child. Before they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gestures and by making questioning noises.

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語言學習是從聽開始的。兒童開始說話前的那段聽的階段是有很大區別的。說話晚的孩子聽的時間要長一些。許多孩子在開始說話前會‘遵守’（家長的）口頭指令，雖然那些‘遵守’并不能表示孩子完全愿意并高興進行合作。在孩子開始講話前，許多孩子會用手勢及發出詢問的聲音來提出問題。