Our speech is an important part of us. The quality of our lives is affected by the adequacy of our speech. Language is a code that we learn to use in order to communicate ideas and express our wants and needs. Reading, writing, gesturing, and speaking are all forms of language. Language is an organized system of symbols shared among a group of people, which represent objects, actions, feelings, processes, and relationships.
Every language has a set of rules that govern the content, form, and use of that language.
Children learn language and speech by listening to the language around them and practicing what they hear. In this way, they figure out the rules of the language code. It is not learned all at once but in stages over time. Talk to the child about what they are doing and seeing. Read to the child.