The child’s sensibility to absorb language is so great that he can acquire foreign languages at this age [birth to three].

A child can only acquire the words he hears spoken around him. This is not teaching but absorption. The child is, by nature, hungry for words; he...

Children have a kind of instinct, a special sensibility, which urges them to acquire new words. Between three and five years especially, the child’s...

With the acquisition of language, the child reaches a new level of independence. The child can now communicate his feelings and desires and needs. It...

Language is one of the most striking things he absorbs – one of the characteristics of man – but later he absorbs everything. He becomes a living...

To be able to construct a language in oneself requires more than the power of mimicry. Every man has a mother tongue. Of all languages he can only...

A child must go where he can hear people speaking. But he is more fortunate if he has little children speaking around him because they talk...

It is not nature alone, but nature and the environment together, that give us the miracle of the little child, the miracle of the little child who...

The child must be born without any language at all so that he can take in the language of his environment. This is the work of the first two years of...

It is so helpful to a child when we try to understand his efforts. The child truly suffers when he cannot make himself understood and this suffering...