
Adrian C. answered 10/09/20
Associates of Science in Psychology
There are multiple areas in our brain that help us learn and understand language. Like Broca’s Area found in the frontal lobe of our brain. Broca’s Area plays an important role with production of speech and being able to articulate speech. If this area of the brain gets damaged people typically have a hard time saying things in their language. Wernicke’s area located in the temporal lobe is another part of the brain that is responsible for learning a language and comprehension of speech. These parts of the brain and more is what allows the brain to learn a language. There is a critical time period on where it is most optimal for an individual to learn a language because after passing that critical period it gets harder and harder every year to learn another language. Start as small as hearing sounds from the parents and eventually replicating these sounds as they get order. The brain has the capacity to learn multiple languages as infants pay attention to the sounds parents make and go through stages of learning that language from babbling, saying a word or two, sentences and grammatically correct sentences.