The Language Workshops For Children

Julie is my kids teacher for Spanish. We aren’t native but practice at home and that is important for once a week language. It’s a special program and thankful to find it on

The staff really cares about the kids and their development. The educative component is focused on immersion which is important to truly pick up any language.

Both my children went to the Spanish day camp here and I must say that they had a great time here while they had fallen in love with Spanish language. Josh, their teacher was amazing. He is a native Spanish speaker and he is born for teaching. When we came to this language school, I had no idea what to do with my kids while I’m working and we just wanted to give it a try to learn a new language. This place was a perfect choice. Every day kids are doing something different, eg they are doing art-​crafts (which is important for my daughter), baking cakes, singing funny songs etc. They are not recognizing that they are learning a new language, they are just having fun and never they were never bored. Now we have a nice collection of drawings and handmade art-​crafts and they are singing Spanish songs at home, which is really funny :) I recommend this school to everyone who would like their children to spend their time busy, fun and useful in one.

Julie, my daughter’s instructor for the Spanish preschool class at the Manhattan location, seems to be a caring and nurturing teacher that has fostered my daughter’s interest in the Spanish language and has kept her motivated and looking forward to her lessons.

Both my tots are in the Saturday class with Marie Veronique in the Manhattan location and we love every minute of the class. My children are singing and speaking French more from this class then the one from the French Institute Alliance Francaise. We are glad we signed up for the whole school year.

I feel I must chime in here. Although everyone’s experience will be different based on different teachers, as well as different expectations, I don’t agree with the one-​star reviews. My 15-​month-​old daughter and I attend the mommy & me French class on Lexington & 66^th, and I can’t say enough wonderful things about the program. My daughter’s teacher, Jennifer, is a French native who is charming, charismatic, energetic, and patient with all of the young children. I find myself also having fun and expanding my French tongue. From the moment we walk in the door to the moment we leave, everyone is friendly and warm towards my daughter and myself. The best part is that in a very short time, she is picking up the language. They must be doing something right!

The philosophy is to make language learning fun, through songs, pleasantries, snacks, and fun.
After one semester, however, I have come to see it as glorified babysitting, 2 hours for me to have a browse in the Upper East Side shops.
Mandarin Chinese is supposed to be hard, not fun. Many key concepts are painful to grasp. Yes there is a need for rote memorization. This class, I felt, obfuscated the truth about how Chinese is truly a difficult language.
My seven year old picked up some words for colors and fruits in a beginning class filled with a four year old and a nine year old, none of them native speakers. However, no pain, no gain. They felt no pain, but they also did not learn much of value. SInging is singing. Singing may lead to some learning, but there is a need to sit down and write some characters out. I feel that did not happen.
$ 800 for a semester. The teacher was a very nice person, no doubt. However, I think this program just gives an illusion that you are doing something for your child.