Early Language Learning

How Your Child Can Benefit

There are many misconceptions and ignorant assumptions surrounding early language learning.

This article will show how preschool languages are actually very beneficial to young children.

Doesn't early language learning just confuse children?

No - quite the opposite. Consider the facts:

Babies are born with the innate ability to learn and separate out multiple languages.


What's more, studies have proved that learning a foreign language at this age does not delay English language acquisition.


Early exposure to a foreign language actually increases 'brainpower' - due to increased neural activity in the part of the brain that deals with language.


Think about it. If your child learns that the French for rabbit is lapin, she may get the 2 words mixed up - but for how long? What is more important is that she has grasped that an animal with big floppy ears can have 2 names.


Because she is likely to hear the word rabbit far more than lapin, the native English word will naturally become the word of choice as she gets older and more confident.

Benefits Of Learning a Foreign Language For Young Children

It encourages a more open-minded view of the world. By presenting foreign cultures in a positive light, your child is more likely to grow up appreciating the enormous diversity of our global village.

As someone once said, you are a foreigner everywhere except your native country.


Leaving language learning until age 10 or older is a mistake - it misses the crucial window of opportunity for acquiring a foreign language, where it's easy and intuitive.


Because the second language is learnt so much more easily, this increases the child's future career prospects through the ease with which future adults can communicate in business and so on.

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