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Lingua's emphasis on play keeps the context authentic and the learning fun.
For internationally-minded parents, Lingua Language Academy is a unique local opportunity to help their children experience the educational and social benefits of early second language learning.
Lingua’s immersion program surrounds children with either German or Spanish for hours each day, allowing children’s natural language-learning abilities to effortlessly flourish. Because the language is presented through play, song, games, and everyday interaction, it is heard in a relevant, meaningful context.
Children’s brains are programmed to decode and internalize language. This ability, paired with a lack of self-consciousness, makes preschool-age children ideal language learners.
Founder Susanne Jacobsen says that her 15-hour-per-week German immersion students began speaking words and simple phrases relatively quickly into the school year and are now producing entire original sentences.
In addition to having well-trained native speakers as teachers, the school also bases its methods on the latest research on early childhood education and language learning. Hands-on, imaginative play is a priority, as well as seeking inspiration from nature through outdoor activity. The school’s atmosphere is intimate and lends itself to creativity and dramatic play.
Lingua will be offering German and Spanish immersion classes this fall for two, three, or five days a week for preschool-age children. It also offers weekly classes for older children in German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Italian, and Chinese.
For more information visit the school’s website or attend the open house on June 5 and 6.
The child-centered classrooms create an ideal environment for language learning.
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