Baby can speak with imitation from birth, but his language development is likely to see until in 6 months. When 6 ~ 9 months ,there may be a voice like "daaa"or "baaa" . After 9 months, may be more combination of pronunciation, such as "ah, ga, ba, ma", etc. Ten months later, he already can call "baba" "mama" very clear.
Researches show that when baby is around 2 years old ,that will be in the critical period of language learning. So It is very beneficial to the growth of baby's language If parent can create a good language learning environment for the baby, and taught him languages in correct way.
So how to help the toddlers understand the language are become very important to the young parents.
There are some tips maybe can help you how to teach your kids understand Chinese in daily life.
You can go to your local library and buy some Chinese books which are suitable for toddles. Every day read one or two books for them. Maybe in the beginning, they cannot understand anything or impossible to read with you,but with the time goes ,she will follow the direction of your fingers to read some words, and start to put the words together. In addition, the baby also will remember the meaning and pronunciation of words.
2. Buy some toys and games involving language.
Every kids will like toys and games . It is a very good way for kids to study the language when they are playing. For example, to buy a toy phone speak Chinese. At the same time, we can adjust the button to translate Chinese into English or other language . Toys are able to speak two or more different language that is becoming a trend of language, that is a ideal method to introduce a new language to children.
When the baby are playing or eating,you can play some soft music or language tapes as background music, it is good for teaching baby a new language . Even if sometimes seems to be that the baby didn't really listen, but his mind is to absorb the information in the music. With the passage of time, if you play the tape on a regular basis, you will see the obvious effect, and you will understand how much this way work to teach the baby language.
Even the children are under the age of 1 , they also can accept something intuitive from the audio . They can get some basic vocabulary from talk show or movie , television drama ....when they are listen everyday.