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Language acquisition is one of the main focuses of parents in monitoring children's development. Language acquisition has been the subject of study by linguists from the past to the present. First language acquisition is the process of language acquisition and development that occurs naturally. The purpose of this study is to find out more about children's language acquisition and analyze the extent of their language acquisition. The subject is Muhammad Rayan who is 3 years and 10 months old, the child is in an environment that often uses Banjar language. So that the data obtained also uses Banjar language. This research uses descriptive qualitative method. Data collection is done by recording techniques, direct interaction and recording the data obtained. From the results of the research conducted, it can be concluded that there are three very important aspects in children's language acquisition, namely phonological, syntactic and semantic aspects. This is done to determine the extent of a child's language development. Based on the researcher's analysis, children aged 3 years and 10 months can already pronounce vowel and consonant phonemes. Although there are some mistakes in pronunciation. In addition, in the syntactic aspect, children can pronounce words in short sentences with various types, such as statement, question and command sentences. In the semantic aspect, children are able to distinguish words and their use in each speech..