Language learning begins with listening. Individual children vary greatly in the amount of listening they do after 62. ______ they start speaking, and late starters are often long listeners. Most children will "obey" spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the word obey is hardly accurate like a description of the eager and delighted 63. ______ cooperation usually shown by the child. Before they can speak, many children will ask questions in gesture and by 64. ______ making questioning noises. Any attempt to trace the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words lead to considerable difficulties. It is agreed 65. ______ they enjoy making noises, and that during the first 66. ______ few months one or two noise sort themselves out as 67. ______ particular indicative of delight, distress, sociability, and so 68. ______ on. But since these can be said to show the baby’s intention to 69. ______ communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months riley play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new sounds to their repertoire. This self-imitation leads on to deliberate imitation of sounds making or words spoken to them by other people. The 70. ______ problem then arises as to the point which one can say that 71. ______ these imitations can be considered as speech.