Language: The First 5 Years of Life of Learning 

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It's not that Pete is late. It's that he will simply have a harder time, which means that if Lucy does everything he does in terms of language learning she will move even further. His potential is being limited but it still exists. Just like you can learn to draw at age 40, it is recommended you do when you are a little kid because that will expedite the process significantly. I personally find myself learning words every single day in English since it is not my native language but it is still the language I use the most with other Native English speakers. To expand one's vocabulary, reading is a great tool, but new words should still be written down and learned separately from the book to add even more context in order to make the word stick. I'm currently learning Japanese and find it quite easy to learn new vocabulary when I have something to connect it to using stories and images.

This is why I chose to care for my kids full time. I took the first 5 years seriously. Play, sing, talk spend lots of time with your little ones. No one is going to care more about your children than you.

Moral of the story: let people speak other languages to your children.

Language is not just words, they’re the communication of thoughts and feelings, sadly not many know how to express.

Being a bilingual teacher myself I found it very worrying that people still think that only native adults can teach language 'properly'. It has to do with proficiency. I know a lot of native English people that have lower proficiency in English compared to bilingual individuals. In today's connected world these language myths should be long gone!

Welp, glad I could get some validation here about why my kids have speech delays. I spent most of my time too exhaused to talk and too exhausted to take them out to social situations. It seriously annoys me people keep saying "it's not your fault" when I know it absolutely is. They clearly began to improve once I started reading to them on a regular basis and clearly stagnated when I stopped again. (It's hard to read when they fight if they're too close to each other and I'm trying to keep the baby from ripping the pages of a library book!) They're 3 so I suppose there is still time for them to recover some lost ground. I have a better handle on things now so maybe the baby will have better luck with his language development.

I’m a Filipino living in Japan but my daughter’s 1st language is English. Based on my own experience as a mom of bilingual daughter, it is very critical to communicate to a child from birth. Thinking that they don’t understand what we are saying but they are trying to communicate with a smile & giggle. Language input plays a very important role so later on you can hear the output. At 2, she can switch her language from English to Japanese when she’s talking to her father without any confusion. One more thing, sitting with your child while watching educational videos and reading them stories with big expressions also play a big role. Explain things that are new to them for a greater understanding & vocabularies. Boys most of the time have late development when it comes to talking but physically active as compared to girls (not in general).

This reminds me of my daughter and non-verbal autistic son, despite their environment and influences being much more similar. I definitely think Pete will likely find ways to compensate for the areas he lacks. I'm positive there are plenty of successful Petes'. Lucy just has a measurable advantage.

Given what I know now, my future kids will be geniuses

I couldn't talk until the age of 9, it sucks, but that's the reality I lived. Deep down I knew why, it bothers me even now. My family who are narcists ignored me and the only attention I got was negative. This led to a lack of social skills and confidence.

I loved talking to my son. At age 3 he took a Star Wars 20 page picture book from me and read it page by page perfectly. He's a teacher. I also later had a great stint teaching ESL classes (I did take language classes in school)

I love that you folks present an argument, and then explore other possibilities. It's a strong premise and I think it has merit, especially in a society that values language so much. I do think that Pete would certainly compensate in unexpected ways. For what he may lack in solidifying the depth of his language abilities, he may end up strengthening non verbal communication skills. Perhaps a stronger reliance on facial recognition and even possibly empathy to make up for it? Yeah it's all speculation, but I think above all else, children will naturally explore their world. Peters going to learn SOMETHING.

Today I was at a grocery store narrating and talking to my 4 month old son. A passerby asked if he is talking back to me. I answered no (like duh) and kept talking to my baby about the things we are buying. I did the same with my first and she has a large vocabulary 💙 Annisa

There are different types of intelligence, skills and mental plasticity does not end with childhood, so yes, there's great hope for Pete! Pete could be a great athlete, he could be a great dancer, singer, composer, methematician (musica and math have their own language) or he could have caught up ideas and language from other sources than the nanny, with the right motivation and the right support Pete will be fine and learn loads, at the same time Lucy could become discouraged, could be limited by an introverted nature that does not allow her to express herself verbally as much as others, this assuming that both children have no learning or developmental imparement. So there are many, many nuances to child development and parents could be discouraged by someone tellign them that their child can't focus (for example) because he didn't receive adequate linguistic tools in time. There are rare extreme examples of learning disabilities due to total language imparement but that's not what usually happens in average lives.The presentation is nice but a little limitative and it paints a black and white picture of the issue (quite literally, haha), also the nanny with a traditional cone hat is a little (a lot) patronising, where I live in Asia only very old people, usually gardeners, wear them...or tourists, it's not a thing, seriously. Anyway I do appreciate the channel and the videos.

Looking back to my childhood, I just realized that I was Poor Pete

One of my professors told a story about a family that hired a Filipina nanny who spoke Tagalog to their son. When he started school, the school called and said that he spoke only Tagalog. How sad that his family never realized that before because they never talked to him.

this is one of the main reasons my husband and I decided together One of us should stay with our daughter for the first 3 years of her life at home. Husband had a career path with more benefits and growth singular path so I chose to stay. Baby is only 3 months we been reading few books to her daily and say everything as we are doing. She enjoys having talking to us in her own sounds lol.

in my opinion is never too late to learn new language . that's remember me a story for a video long ago wich an old man speak english very fast because had a crush in a old women who speak only english. He find a motivation. as always excellent quality and content video .

It's definitely completely possible for Pete to catch up. English is my first language now, but I only formally started learning it at age 6. Just constant exposure to the language and daily use put English at the forefront, and I'm definitely not any behind native speakers who began younger at this point.

The video does a good job showing the importance of language and talking/reading to your child. That being said, there are genetic factors that play a role I language development and besides that, most studies show that developing language earlier only has a very small correlation with intelligence later in life. Another study showed that kids who struggle developing language early almost always end up at the same development level as early developers by age 4-5. PARENTS IF YOUR CHILD SEEMS A LITTLE BEHIND DONT PANIC (obviously talk to their doc but most likely they're perfectly normal and won't end up behind other kids) YOUR PROBABLY NOT A BAD PARENT 🙂✌️

love it, just 1 minor comment on the character of nanny wearing vietnamese hat all the time, it is such a stereotype.

Thank god for these videos...im 5 1/2 months pregnant with my first child and am so nervous about how to be a parent...thank you for your videos sprout!

De jó kis videó, köszönöm. Kiegészíteném a meseolvasással, ami a fantéziát fejleszti korai kisgyermekkorban. Ja tőlem se kérje senki, hogy olvassak angolul fel, mivel rossz kiejtéssel rosszat tanulna tőlem a gyerek, de azt hozzátenném, ha egy nyelven valakinek megvan mindez egy másikra könnyebben tudja átfordítani az iskolában, óvodában.

Seems to validate the need for empathetic social interactionism for healthy human development. Thanks again

My kid learn more from videos than from me. THere are a lot of phrases that he prefers using, but none that I actually taught him or use around him. I play baby einstein, which taught him some sign language as well. I also let him watch cocomelon and he learned the entire alphabet before he turned 2 with a dave and ava video. His favorite phrases are "hmm.. wait a second" and "oh wow, beautiful" he uses them in adorably appropriate situations and he learned both from blippi (as annoying as he is.) he also learned excavator, his longest word from blippi, as well as learned to play and sing with this videos. I almost didn't let him watch tv, but then I came across another video that suggested baby einstein, and I immediately saw his interest in communicating with me. Yes I had him seeing a speech therapist who prescribed different activities with him, but they didn't stick as well as the stuff he learned from videos. He is a pandemic baby and hasn't even interacted with other children and I was afraid that he wouldn't know how to play or communicate, but now hes very talkative and silly thanks to the many videos available online.

yes yes yes!! ive worked with some toddlers as a babysitter, and also watching my own little half sliblings (12-20 years age difference) and its so true, they can very clearly understand before actual speaking

This is why universal pre-k is essential to the overall betterment of society. If you build up a strong foundation in the early years it becomes easier and children don’t have to struggle as much expressing themselves and getting what they need.

This video was interesting.In my perception I feel that , language is not only the tool to communicate.It is one of the way because it is globally accepted one. May be his interpersonal ability can be high. Children are unique.Rather shaping them to adjust with them we can be wider in thinking and go with their flow. I strongly believe, we can learn many things from them.once we admit at times that" we are ignorant"

Hi I am from India.... And particularly from Kerala.....When it comes mother tongue, we can easily learn it from the people we interact.... It's quite possible if the interaction is less you pick up the language slowly... But we all go to schools, right? There we have enough chance to improve our language.... And I think it's about a foreign language this video is about. It's for sure if you start learning a new language from childhood itself, you learn it quickly...... Thank you for a valuable information...

You did very well. It was so good that it inspired me to make a PowerPoint off of your video. Keep up the great work!

Raising a bilingual 1 year old and thank god my country (Finland) has a good support system and we've been getting a lot of good advice already how to help his language development. This video definitely added a perspective and will think about this when supporting his growth!

Thank you for sharing this information with us.

I'd love to immerse my future kids in a multilingual environment. Unfortunately I can only speak English and my Japanese skills - well, I can hold a basic conversation but that's it. If I were Petes parents I'd've encouraged the nanny to use her native language. I'd've asked her to use it with me too! When you speak it a person in their learned language, you speak to their head, but if you speak to a person in their native tongue, you speak to their heart.

There are parallels in this story to that of helicopter parenting. In the story, the problem is the language barrier of the nanny. In the bubble wrapping child parallel, the problem is the hindered experiences from the nanny state that believe that EVERYTHING is dangerous and is overprotective. This results in the child is hindered greatly on exploring. Schools also focus on test scores so that they can receive maximum funding. They reduce free play because it gets in the way of precious study time.

Even the purpose of the video is the language development, language alone is not what we call thinking. Language is more like labeling objects, whereas thinking is knowing the objects behind those words, seeing different ways in which those objects can interact, creating structures out of those objects in order to solve some problems we are confronted with. These structures are all around us, from music and painting, to medicine or government and politics. Language has a great importance in exchanging with others, however its role should not be overestimated.

Your classes are so helpful.. amazingly scheduled and within a short span of time more informations are provided.. can you please do such simple videos on vygotsky's language development theory, and personality theories of Adler, Carl Roger, Eric berne, catell..

3:54 The rice-paddies hat for the Asian woman is uncalled for.

I very rarely leave comments on youtube videos especially ones I'm forced to watch for school but man your artwork made this video super intriguing!!!

if Pete's nanny is allowed to speak in her native language, Pete will be able to express better than Lucy when he grow up. More advantages and opportunities for Pete who can speak two languages. Too bad he has lazy parents.

Progress and growth can be attributed to mindsets. Teaching children to be free thinking is key. There are a variety of ways to influence this outside of verbal/social situations. Creating miniature games or activities to stimulate their minds in general can help the other processes of human interaction. Just to clarify looking through the lense if extroverted/introverted personalities. Since a majority of my childhood involved isolation and self study to improve

I really thing this is over simplified as there is more to communication than verbal and language communication. My husband had zero English fluency but was placed into an English speaking country at 16. His English is now fluent but with an accent, limited vocab and imperfect grammar, but he more than makes up for it through his observational skills. Because his English was so poor when he first arrived, he had to rely on reading tone, context and body language to guess what people were saying, consequently he's extremely astute to reading people's underlying thoughts and intentions. It's actually often an advantage, as he's not clouded by the words people are speaking (e.g. gauging when clients are being polite vs genuine interest). Also even in Pete's example, his parents are less involved, not non-existent. I'm a firm believer in quality over quantity, if his parents even spend 30mins of quality time with him a day that might already be enough to bring his language level closer to Lucy. Also, as a parent, you don't actually have to be great at something yourself in order for your child to learn it. It's about providing support and encouragement. For example you can learn piano even if your parents don't know piano themselves, even if you only see the piano teacher 30mins a week as long as parents are supporting what the teacher is teaching by encouraging the piano practice etc.

A very interesting topic, thank you. I think that he can definitely catch up, but it will be hard and will only get harder as he gets older. By the time he realises that he has some catching up to do it might be too late. A good teacher would see that he needs help and may help him.

Giving them books while young helps alot in nurturing the child's growth in not only learning but also understanding, reading and literature. Not to force it in general but to pique interest through themed/custom books such as *personalised childrens books*

The idea of language development is supported by the rich background knowledge that child is exposed to. There is the nature of the child existing already, but it has to be nurtured by environment by the home, school and community through the caregivers at home and school through language. Schema or background knowledge is slowly developed and so is the acquisition of language. Once the child has a rich background experience, it is easier for him or her to engage and interact on certain topics by reading, writing, speaking and writing using the vocabulary or words he she has acquired. You can only give what you have.

Always interesting And informative. Thank you Peace 💕🇺🇲

I see parenting as an experiment, there is no one size fit all here neither. There is no need to feel pressured to “catch up”, but being the best parent you can be is what’s more important. Let the kids enjoy their childhood, play and have fun. Life will get progressively harder as they age so let them enjoy it.

Wow, thank you for this insightful video. Now, I know why I found it difficult to express my self in certain times in the past and still now haha. I was grown up in a Beber village in Morocco where we speak Berber. After that, I was sent to the school where we study all the subjects in classical Arabic while the teachers were teaching using Moroccan Arabic.

What I've found heartbreaking here in Japan is the disproportionate number of kids coming up for 5 years of age that are missing significant developmental milestones, presumably because the three years from ages 1 to 4 have been spent at nurseries and kindergartens where nobody has a face because of enforced masking. Not seeing a person's face at that age when they're trying to talk to you means much of the nuance is lost, so the words just go in one ear and out the other. I know 5 year olds that are still in nappies and barely able to string a sentence together.

Great video!!😄😊

That theory works for most people, but not the autistic - Einstein likely had autism like me. I went from 50 words and screaming, babbling and 1 word sentences on my sixth birthday to over 15,000 words by my 7th. What caused it, the equilibrium and contentment of early childhood being broken. Today a word test showed my vocab was around 40 - 55k, or twice as many as usual. My first words were "Gloucester Street" as I was reading street signs in the taxi on the way to Special school, the driver nearly drove off the road!

Brilliant! The ending!

In this example, Pete was exposed to a limited vocabulary due to a nanny with reduced English proficiency. I see many comments asking why Pete's parents are also not communicating with him part of the day. We are forgetting that most children are raised by their parents and that most working and welfare class parents themselves have limited vocabularies and also limited social skills. The Bloomberg Providence Talks study showed that not only do children of working and welfare class families hear far fewer words (30 million fewer words by 3rd birthday), but that the words they hear are far less rich in content and nuances ("Don't do that!", "Stop!", "Do this now!"). The only answer to remedy this is to provide professional early education to all children or at least all disadvantaged children. Finland went from being mediocre in education outcomes to among the best in the western world in just a few years by starting formal early education as young as 6 months with very low student/teacher ratios (as low as 2/1 in early years) and highly qualified teachers (applicable advanced degrees required).

The Mind can't realize of every detail at once, but with years does build a huge belief system.

I think that Pete will be bilingual and I also think that there are stereotypes in this video.

Balance is everything!

i loved the illustrations

I guess the point is that language and learning it is so much more complex than we might think.

My guess is that Pete’s parents should have spent more time with him. Especially since there was a nanny who took all the “technical” care of the child during the weekdays. It’s much more possible to have rich and powerful connection with a child when you are not exhausted and pissed off after the whole day working and taking care of the child. 2-3 hours before sleep and weekends should provide a good amount of healthy communication for a language development.

As a mom of bilingual kid, I can see my daughter's second language and first language vocab is less than a kid same age just learning one language. Listening to this now I'm not sure if it's gonaa get better in amy of those two languages in her life time. I always think it helps her to be more creative knowing two languages.

Wow, this video was very good!

Oh I enjoyed, sir your voice is also good.

Explained in best mannner about language

Sir your voice is amazing 💜💜

6:05 just a little mistake, if you name the chess piece Knight (the right way) then there's no horse... About the final question, it is most important how you apply your knowledge than the knowledge itself.

I think Pete can catch up later in life but it will take much more work and willpower to learn.

Thanks sir

Beautiful

Any stimulus around a child causes response which is reaction in some form as format or pattern for observation to know more about the concerned child. The stimuli are in nature and responses are natural.

My only comment is that children can learn from each other. Many children in the world develop sufficient language skills without extensive parent input to the extent this video is suggesting is necessary.

The Nanny with the Straw Hat..... I dont know whether to laugh or cry hahahha

Thanx

Can you do a video about schemas, assimilation, and accommodation??

Sir/mam which video editing software you use for this ???

communication is one of the 8 Success Fundamentals for the 21st Century. The fact that it is not a more prevalent subject to study in our childhood years is beyond me. We can not speak that which we do not know. The more limited the vocabulary, the more tendency to poor behavior.

No one going to comment on the children who all died of neglect...? Man I am glad science has changed a bit.

What about bilingual children learning a foreign language in a foreign country? For example, I have a son. He is four now. He is sociable and talkative child. He has a wide range of vocabulary in his native language. So, I’m afraid that it would be very difficult for him to express himself and to communicate in the foreign country. He wouldn’t understand why other children don’t want to talk to him or don’t understand him. He couldn’t express himself clearly. I’m afraid that our moving will be very stressful for him and it will have negative impact on his personality. Should we cancel our decision in order not to hurt his psyche?Or are my fears unfounded and it would be not so stressful for him to learn another language through emigration in his young age?

Yes, there's plenty of chances for Peter to catch up.. There are so many types of intelligence besides the verbal one. And.. over the course of our lifes we continue to learn so many things.

I’m a Twin and me and my twin invented our own language bc we did not speak English until we were 5, our parents took us to a dr. Who said we may be autistic and may never speak but now my sister and I are seniors in highschool and she has a 4.0 gpa and I have a 3.7 non-weighted gpa. I wouldn’t say I’m the smartest but I am decent enough and what I lack in smarts I make up for in common sense. idk how language effected us.

This happened in my home my son is delayed in language because he was not exposed to much conversation only at home with me, now he is exactly as the pette. It’s very hard and frustrating for him and me

Before I had my first class I had a beautiful childhood, but I never learned how to calculate and I was an immigrant. So I couldn't understand what the teacher was saying and my mom couldn't teach me mathematics. So I read a lot to learn the language but missed first math classes. I got my a levels because math was not part in it. I'm so thankful because I'm 20 and I use my fingers to calculate :D language is so important! I think that's the only reason why I'm so bad with math. I had a Traumata because numbers were hieroglyphics to me. My teacher knew I was an immigrant but never helped me.

Very interesting truth

My 5-year-old child can speak a little but understand more english, filipino and german. I talk to him in filipino, we live in germany so he knows that language the best. When we watch kid's show, we watch them in english. He also hears us speak a bit of french and korean (we watch kdrama once in a while😁).

The best way to learn another language is to live where they speak that language. A stranger in a new land Learns faster than in his own land. Shalowm Amen. God is the one that changed our language and He knows when we need help Understanding, Even his Word.!

Sir your voice is amazing

Thanks for sharing this video. I'm concern about over stimulating the baby... Is that possible? And how can we give the correct stimulation? 🤔

The ability to develop a vocabulary is not just limited to 5 years. A child can develop the same at adolescent or early adulthood if reading is inculcated. Yes, Pete would have missed out on a lot of school learning and expressing, but if the inculcating has happened during schooling, there would be no missing. The point being, once the habit to read has been inculcated, it is directly proportional to the increased vocabulary , thereby, enhancing the ability of expression of ideas and creativity of an individual.

In an era of misinformation and invalid information, it is nice that you included some citations to back up the narrative. Some additional references would be good.

totally awesome

Yes this is true , I have been learning English for 5years via academic way but unfortunately I can't to reach to fluency

Yes he can catchup later in life if gets that extra help in time.

I grow up as a child in the 1960's . I was classified by the education system as being medially retarded. I didn't pronounce very well, could not read at my appropriate age and did not have the knowledge that my peers had. I remember just looking out the window day dreaming because I had no interest with what the teacher was saying. My parents was told that I was retarded and would never be equal in learning with the other students. I was put in special ed. When I was 12 years old I was watching a Jacques Cousteau documentary (a famous scuba diver) and I told my teachers that I wanted to be a scuba diver and I wanted to read about scuba diving (we had no computers then). They just smiled at me and gave me the same baby books they gave me year after year. They told my dad not to encourage me because it would only hurt me when I find out that I was not capable of doing such things. My dad did not listen to them. He find a diving instructor that would teach me and my dad. I started learning how to read books. I got a 99% correct on my diving test (the school teachers said that the dive instructor and my dad was lying). That changed my life. I was also interested in Electronics and Aviation. By the age of 16 I was a certified privet pilot. By the age of 18 I joined the Air National Guard and became a Avionic Technician (repairing aircraft electronics). Pretty good for someone who is retarded ! !

These kind of oversimplified analysis give guilt in working mom, and Pete can catch up because kids are resilient to their difficulties

ah, yes, the classic scenario where a white family hires a nanny who wears a vietnamese hat 24/7. how relatable!

I moved to the United States when I was 3. My brothers were were 4 and 8. All 3 of us are more proficient in English than our native Russian. My eldest speaks better Russian than I do because he moved back. However, I speak better Russian than my middle brother because I practice it more.

Language is one thing, but there are so many different ways to express yourself, so don't worry, to really maneging a language takes more than five years to master, pete can still catch up if he want.

You really need to put the name of the narrator in the description. I swear I've heard this guy somewhere.

I always felt parents who gave all kinds of learning gadgets out of fear that they weren't as capable or that they were just plain lazy. It's good to also know the neurological explanation behind the brain development.

Really interesting video. But I really don't think language limits his ability to express himself considering that most forms of communication is actually nonverbal. 😳