Because of its relationship to the tonal center, it will be heard and sung in its own relationship and its own tendency within the key. With much singing practice using the moveable do system, these relationships become as ingrained as spoken language, and the reading skill and in-tune singing of even young children can be quite amazing. Not only are the pitches accurate, but the Latin based syllables use very pure vowels making the singing aesthetically pleasing as well as tonally accurate. Hand signs that accompany the syllables are an important kinesthetic tool to help ingrain the interval. When intervalic relationships are cemented, hand singing is dropped.
Young children become proficient in difficult rhythmic figures.
Once the rhythm syllables are used repetitively, rhythm is a simple matter. Much of Hungarian folk music is pentatonic. This is an easy scale for beginners because of its lack of half steps. Small children the world over begin singing a minor third. That is the first interval learned.