can a 1 year old baby learn three languages at the same time?

Answer 1

Yes. Not only can they, but they should hear the sound of the languages from birth onwards as children losing the ability within the first few years to move their mouths and sound producing organs in the unique ways required to 'sound native'.

Multi-lingual friends have told me that their children were slow to speak any language compared to other children, but once they began to speak, they spoke all of them (interchanging words from each). They were also slower to start reading as their vocabulary was so much larger than the other kids, plus they had to learn which words belonged to which language and which words belonged together (stop mixing languages).

One of my friends speaks one language to their children when alone. Her husband speaks another when alone with the kids. They all speak English when together. They are trying to teach all three, but make it clear which words go to which language.

Answer 2

You're baby is taking in a lot of stuff... tho 3 languages may or may not be possible it could do more damnage then good.... because rather then being good at one language he is just going to be OK at about 3 different ones... yet when he goes to school his teacher will talk english so if he isn't well with english then he will get held back a year... *( it happened to a friend of mine who talked chinese and english, it caught up with him adn he got held back in 2nd grade or something )*... one person doesn't play 3 sports and go pro on all 3 sports......... you see a pro football player go from college to NFL... you dont see that same guy playing golf on saturday mornings...
good luck

Answer 3

I'm not sure how many languages are too many languages for a 1 year old to learn. I know my son is exposed to 2 languages and is picking them up just fine. My husband and I speak english, but when the nanny gets there, she speaks all spanish. I've noticed that he does know the difference between the languages and he speaks both. When he wants water sometimes he'll ask for "agua please" and other times he'll ask for "water please". I guess it all depends on the amount of time they're exposed to the different languages.

Answer 4

They can learn more than that, and moreso they are able to differentiate between the languages, ie they know that the languages are different and won't mix them up when speaking unless they intend to. My advice is to expose them to as many languages as possible because their minds are the most plastic at the moment!

Answer 5

I assume they can. Some might think it would confuse them however I recently saw a study that said it increase there brain function. The study said the each different language seem to show activity in different parts of the brain. You might do a search on it to find out more.

Answer 6

I can't really say but my younger brother is 2 years old and loves baby einstein's different languages movie and sometime i can hear him repeating the german or smehting i know its not eniglish

Answer 7

I KNOW they can learn two at the same time, so I have no doubt they can learn three, and they can probably learn it quite well!

Answer 8

You could, but if you talk that language near your baby.

Answer 9

Yes, but really only if they are spoken by live people they see all the time. Videos and cassette tapes don't really help much in that regard.

Answer 10

he should be able to but that may mean over-rushing him but as he grows older he definitely will learn the languages provided he has access to the languages . Thanks