Yes, cats DO understand English, or any other language they are brought up around. Iâm not saying cats will sit through Shakespeare; heck, I know people who donât want to sit through Shakespeare. Whatever language is most commonly spoken around any household, an animal will learn to understand. Cats speak by using complex combinations of body language, vocalization, and scent cues. Cats "understand" meaning, tones, vibes, connections (i.e., you say some word, dinner, for instance) and when the cat hears it and associates it gets fed it shows up but that doesn't mean it ⦠But I have also seen my cats act in ways which indicate that they appreciate, and somewhat understand, explanations. After observing pet cats for several years, he's come to an intriguing conclusion: They don't really understand us the way dogs do. Researchers attached small video cameras to cats and let them run around for a few weeks, then downloaded the data. My cats know when I am happy, sad, angry, ect. One might say they are multi-lingual! The researchers added that after 10,000 years of living with humans, domestic cats have the ability to communicate with us, and, generally speaking, we seem to understand them. I do not own cats..I am allergic to their hairs but my friend does so I will alert her. They do understand words (or rather, sounds) in any language. My vet tells me that cats can understand up to about 100 English words. Humans have a special relationship with house pets, and a full 62 percent claim that their pets understand the words that they speak [source: USA Today].While there's no way to know exactly how much Fido gets what you're saying, scientists have proven that some dogs, apes and even dolphins can understand spoken language. Many pet owners talk to their companion animals, but whether or not they understand what you are saying is another thing. Well, same question for cat owners in Spain, do cats understand Spanish? They also have words for us. Oct 10, 2007 #3 K. katz4life TCS Member. My dogs don't respond to hissing, but my cats do. It's common knowledge that dogs have the capacity to understand a variety of words, but do cats possess the same ability? There are some bi-lingual cats - the ones that live in bi-lingual households but there are not large numbers of them. The International Association of Animal Behaviour Consultants' 2015 Feline Behaviour Conference - yes that's a real thing - heard that humans are the problem: we don't understand what cats ⦠Dogs do not understand English or any other human-created language. No, not all cats understand English. German cats only know German and so on. This makes talking to our cats into a powerful training tool. Learn how to recognize cat language basics, and figure out the most common combinations, to understand what your cat is saying to you and to the other pets in your family. 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