Language is a common medium which connects humans around the world. Every country has its own native language and children often learn the first few words of their language due to their close interaction within the family environment. With globalization in full force and the entire world relating to each other via the internet technology, there is a need to learn new foreign languages to stay ahead and interact with foreigners in an enhanced manner.

Starting Early is for the Good

Learning a new language is no easy task and therefore beginning early can have its own advantages. Early childhood is one of the most crucial stages of human lives and is characterized by higher flexibility to learn and grow various abilities. It is the stage of preparation and forms the foundation of future life of children. It is during early childhood when kids are more open to guess, explore and experiment. Learning a new foreign language is a skill and hence learning at a young age makes kids experts in a new language faster in comparison to adults.

Learning is Natural

Research recommends that a very early age is the best time to start learning a foreign language. This is because it then becomes a part of the natural learning process. Every healthy child is gifted with nearly 100 billion brain cells and each of these cells embraces up to 20,000 connections (Adžija & Sindik, 2014). The ability of these brain cells to form new connections or their death depends on their immediate environment. When young children are exposed to a foreign language, their ability to acquire it increases manifold in comparison to adults who need more efforts in learning a new language. Children learn about 2000 new words by the time they are 4-year old, and hence exposing them to a new foreign language at a young age can create a higher success rate of speaking the language fluently.

Ample Time to Practice

Words and meaning are closely associated with each other and therefore it is quite impossible to understand or learn any word without knowing its meaning. While adults can provide children with the words and their meanings, it becomes challenging for them to make them understand the meaning to children since a lot of learning takes place through social interactions and practical life experiences. Therefore, it makes a lot of sense in exposing your child to a new foreign language quite early in life so that the child gets ample opportunity to learn and practice the new language and effectively use it for communication.

Makes Kids Smarter

Creativity is considered as an important aspect of cognition and various research studies have attempted to establish a close relationship between creativity and intelligence. Many scientists have associated bilingualism as closely related with creativity (Ghonsooly & Showqi, 2012). Bilingual students have been known to be better divergent thinkers and performers at school level in various countries. Some of the advantages of bilingualism include enhanced cognitive functions such as planning, cognitive flexibility and memory. Research further confirms that learning a new foreign language in a classroom setting dramatically increases a child’s divergent thinking ability on four dimensions of fluency, elaboration, originality and flexibility (Ghonsooly & Showqi, 2012). While we totally support this; from our personal experience we have seen that classroom teaching can get monotonous. We have developed a teaching approach where communication and interaction with the students are the key factors, enabling the students to make real progress from the very beginning. The achievement of reading simple sentences and being able to communicate in Spanish in real life situations keeping the students motivated for continuing Foreign language learning programs

Start Today!

After knowing about the benefits of early learning, why wait for enrolment in a foreign language course? We recommend that you start today!

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