It is generally normal for a twelve-month-old baby not to be able to learn animal calls.
The development of baby’s language is related to the normal development of the brain, throat muscles and the perfection of the sense of hearing, which goes through 3 stages: pronunciation, understanding and expression. Usually, newborns can already cry, 3~4 months babbling pronunciation, 6 months can understand their own names, 12 months can say simple words, such as “goodbye, no more”.
Individual differences in the baby’s language function, can not be completely consistent with the above rules, so twelve months the baby will not learn to call the animal is generally normal, the family should slowly guide the baby to speak, talk to him more, often with other children to communicate, and at the same time, it is recommended that the baby do not let the baby to eat too soft and rotten food, try to let him chew, to promote the development of the masticatory muscles, which is helpful for language training.