If you decide to have a parrot, let alone teach him to talk, you need to think very carefully. Parrot though unpretentious in the care, but you must become his best friend and companion in communication. After all, in nature these birds live in packs, and loneliness can destroy it.
What parrot is easier to teach to speak?
The size of the parrot does not play a special role in teaching. You can learn to speak, armed with patience, and a large and small bird. Particularly important when buying a sex, age and appearance of the parrot. It is believed that boys are more receptive to learning than girls. In males, the cornea above the beak is blue, and in the females is brown. Although this difference can be observed not immediately after birth, but after a short time. Parrots of about one month old begin to talk faster, and they began to eat on their own. As for their kind, they well perceive human speech wavy and hot .
Parrots are very sensitive, so it's important not to lose their trust. Fans of these birds, who have considerable experience of their content, give the same advice how quickly to teach the parrot to speak. First, choose a convenient hour for yourself. It should be a school lesson every day at the same time. Some advise to practice in the morning and evening hours for 10 or 15 minutes and before eating, and long lessons to be held once a week. That the parrot is not distracted, there should be an ideal silence in the room, and only the student and the teacher are present. Choose the words for the first lesson as easy as possible. They should contain vowels a and a, whistling and hissing consonants, letters m, k, n, p. It is important to repeat the phrases loudly and clearly, but treat the parrot at the same time gently and, in no case, scream. The camcorder and the recorder will help ease the lessons. But without your presence in the room include these advances in technology is not recommended. You should not cover the bird during classes.
Quickly learn to speak parrots, which have already become accustomed to you, and accustomed to the hand. A small child and a woman can cope with this much easier than a man. This is due to the fact that high voices are perceived by a bird more quickly. If your friend has comfortable conditions (if there is a mirror in the cage), you will be convinced that you can teach a parrot to speak.