In this article, the author discovers an approach to teach her budding instrumentalists using an approach that is centered on the early development of aural skills and on research that links ways of learning music to those of learning language. This approach is based on her experience in adapting Gordon's Music Learning Theory, although many of its tenets are also embraced by methodologies such as Orff, Kodaly, Suzuki, and Dalcroze. The teaching procedures lay a solid foundation for music learning and allow teachers to adapt instruction to the way children naturally learn rather than ask children to adapt their learning to conventional instruction. She states that although music is not a language, music and language share similar learning process. In this article, the author also considers and discusses the four "vocabularies" that describe both: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. (Contains 2 figures and 14 notes.)