Be wise and give your child the advantage!
When should your child start learning a foreign language?
Start early - well before your child reaches school age if possible. Language acquisition comes quite easily to children who are just learning to speak, and they can pick up more than one language simultaneously.
How do we start teaching a foreign language?
By playing and interacting with your child, Language Anywhere's instructor will begin with simple words and phrases just as you would with a first language. Then instruction moves on to simple sentences after your child is comfortable with basic vocabulary.
Why earlier is better?
Children have the capacity to develop new language more naturally than do adults. Children who learn more than one language before adolescence, will acquire those languages with more ease and native-like ability than they would trying to study those languages as adults. Most adults who began to seriously study a second language for the first time in junior high, high school or later, look at bilingual children with envy, realizing that even years of laborious study are not likely to render them equal or balanced bilinguals. It is true that many bilingual children are not balanced bilinguals, using each of their languages with equal ability, since assuring that they have equal exposure to both languages is quite a task--sometimes an impossible task for the parents. However, bilingual children do acquire their dominant language (or both their languages if neither is dominant) to an ability equal of that of their monolingual peers. Additionally, they acquire a piece of a second language, generally learning far more of that language far more quickly than an adult could. How well a bilingual child develops their second language can vary from a child who only knows a few phrases and some very basic vocabulary in a second language, to a child who listens and understands, but cannot or perhaps will not speak, to a balanced bilingual child who communicates in both languages with the same command as monolingual peers in both languages.
What advantages do bilingual children have?
Learning two languages allows children to stretch their understanding of people beyond their dominant culture. Being able to step into another culture through its language is like being able to live a second life
Bilingual are also more inclined to have a deeper appreciation of languages.
French Program
Our program includes instruction through games, story, children's songs (nursery rhymes, lullabies), flash cards and art and crafts activities.
Above the age of 6, we will incorporate appropriate educational activities
We will also be using a textbook and a workbook.
Before the beginning of the class, a meeting with you, your child and our instructor will be scheduled.
Every three months, you will receive a program report explaining what your child and the instructor have been working on. This will enable you to follow your child's progress.
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