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What
is Linguistic Intelligence?
Linguistic intelligence is the intelligence of words, and it develops from an early age. Basically, linguistic intelligence: developing a way with words While still in the womb a baby will learn to recognise his mother’s voice. From four days old he can recognise the speech patterns of his mother’s language. Before his first birthday he begins to associates words with meanings. By 18 months he is beginning to develop a vocabulary which, by the time he is two years old, will have grown to include up to 2,000 words. How do children achieve this amazing grasp of language so quickly? Your child’s ability to use words and to communicate what he knows through speaking and listening, reading and writing will be one of the keys to success in learning and in life. But your child will need help in developing his ability to use words.
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