The Journey Begins Today!
Our mission
To provide children with Spanish conversational skills through full immersion, the same way they learned their first language.
We focus on developing these critical listening and speaking skills in our programs, because children naturally absorb and integrate language orally and aurally
at a young age.
Besides quality education, we want the children to have fun and to view Spanish
as something they “want” to learn not something they “have”
to learn.
Why learning another language at a young age is important:
- Research has shown that math and verbal SAT scores climb higher with each additional year of foreign language study.
- Studying a foreign language can improve your child analytic an interpretive capacities.
- A child’s brain processes multiple languages in parallel paths, building a second language system alongside the first.
- Children exhibit better problem solving skills, enhanced spatial relations, and heightened creativity.
- Encourages flexible thinking and communication skills, helping children consider issues from more than one perspective.
- According to the Wall Street Journal:
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"learning a second language later in life is fundamentally different from learning it early in life... Toddlers
who learn a second language along with their native tongue store this capability
in a single sector in the brain... but if the second language is acquired later
-- say, in a French class in high school -- the brain designates a separate
area for processing it... those who learn two languages at a young age retain
an [unique] ability to speak both as if each was their native tongue."
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