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Can dogs learn English

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Not all dogs understand English, because they have to be taught English. Stray dogs, or dogs that do not know any tricks, do not understand any kind of English (except for their name if they are not stray). It is all a matter if they were taught it or not.

They do not. Yes many dogs are trained and they know what people are saying, by our facial expressions and the tone of our voice. Even though some dogs know what we are saying without having training.

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Obviously, dogs do not speak any certain language, but they can understand them. If you raised a dog in Germany since the day it was born, it would only know the German language to which it was used to responding. The same if you raised a dog in America or any where else.

Take my dog, for example. We bought this little chihuahua from a Mexican man from Mexico. You could talk to that dog all day and it would never do anything you said. It would just look at you like you were stupid. After I began dating a Mexican, I picked up on some Spanish, and started talking to the dog in Spanish. Only then would the dog sit, lay down, go away, go outside. So to a certain extent, yes, dogs can UNDERSTAND English or any other language, IF they are raised with that language.

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Dogs understand basic commands in which ever language you have been training them, but more importantly dogs understand body language and tone of voice. Consistency is the key to teaching a dog any command, once learned the dog will know that sit means that he/she should sit.

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Yes and no. Dogs do understand some of your langauge, like sit, stay, come, good dog. Things along that line. Mainly they understand body language and facial expressions more. So chances are if you say "I'm having a sandwhich for lunch." Your dog won't know what that means. Yes and no. Dogs do understand some of your langauge, like sit, stay, come, good dog. Things along that line. Mainly they understand body language and facial expressions more. So chances are if you say "I'm having a sandwhich for lunch." Your dog won't know what that means.

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Cats and dogs will learn certain words and tone of voice. they can learn any word you teach them and they will partly know what it implies, but it is not like us humans that hear a word and know exactly what it means, they just know when they hear that word they do what you taught them to do upon hearing it.

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Probably not.They can certainly hear you, but whether they understand the language is unlikely - although nobody actually knows. What we do know that they can learn what certain phrases mean such as sit, stand etc. etc.

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They can be trained to recognize vocal commands in any language, however they do not have the capacity to truly speak human language.

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yes they know what we say!

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