from Horwitz on listening

Children unlike adults don't feel that it is important to understand every word, as they are often exposed to conversations that make no sense to them
Stages

1. Listen to the language. Get used to the sound of it. Be able to identify its sounds from other unfamiliar language
2. Try to speak in this language (gibbernish)
3. recognition of a word
4. listen for familiar words
5. Follow the scrips and signal when you hear familiar words
6. recognize individual words, phrases, and sentence boundaries
7. Listening for the Gist (global meaning) identify a topic and extract a global meaning
8. to be continued