Watch your language! New research shows that babies are developing language recognition abilities while still in the womb much earlier than previously thought. The experiment studied 29 Korean-born Dutch speakers. All 29 subjects were adopted by Dutch parents at ages spanning 6 to 17 months. These adoptees were all raised as Dutch speakers having never learned their native language, and across a two-week period they were taught to identify and reproduce a series of Korean consonants. The Korean adoptees rate of learning, and ability to correctly pronounce the foreign sounds, significantly surpassed that of the control group.
Research: Unborn babies hear very well what you’re saying
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