How to Teach Parrots to Talk

The first thing to know when you want to teach a parrot to talk is to understand how parrots learn to produce speech. Once you have this knowledge you will find the process of teaching a parrot very easy. If you know the bird’s ability then you will be able to utilize it to training this parrot very fast. If you are in the right mood, then you will find it easy and enjoyable to teach your parrot. Parrots are known to imitate anything they hear. This is why most of the wild parrots do produce sounds they have overheard in their daily lives.


It has been proved that parrots will tend to pick more words when they are at the height of stress. However this doesn’t mean that you stress your parrot so that you train it. They tend to gain more noisy speech when they are stressed as a way of releasing their stress. The kind of speech they gain during stress is not understandable. It is noisy. To effectively teach your parrot to talk you need to be friendly. Show it that you are caring and loving. This is the only way of setting it into the moods of learning how to talk.

Patience is another thing you need to take into consideration when training a parrot. The process of training a parrot involves too many repetitions. This is why you need to be patient enough so that you repeat your words again and again to make the parrot imitate the same. It is good to be jovial when doing this. Don’t be in moods. Avoid speaking with a lazy or bored tone as you will demoralize the parrot to repeat the same. It is good to say words with emphasis and gusto to make the parrot remember them for long. The bird may not produce words exactly the same way you say them. This calls for need to be considerate. The way of reasoning of it is different from yours. Give it room and time for improvement by repeating the same words.

It is also good if you can imitate the voice of the parrot. This is a good way of increasing the amount of information this bird will retain. Birds take long to learn therefore you should be ready to sacrifice your time to have the parrot know how to talk. It will be of great significance if you can motivate the parrot to talk by rewarding it each time it imitates what you have talked correctly. You can give it a treat like a food. This is a good way of encouraging it to improve even further.

Having good relationship with the parrot is a good way of making it learn quickly. If you mistreat it you will not achieve your goal of training your parrot. It is good to be friendly so that your parrot is free to imitate what you talk about. When you build a trusting relationship, you will be at a good chance of making your parrot know how to talk.