By the time they’re teenagers, most Americans have maxed out their brains’ capacity for language with yo’ mama jokes, corporate board-room jargon, and the Latin names of common plants. Help your child find cerebral space for a foreign tongue with today’s Groupon: for $95, you get four children's language classes, one-time registration fee, and a foreign language audio CD at Language Stars, which has 15 Chicago-area locations (a $234 value).
Language Stars uses its specialized FunImmersion method to help children 1 to 10 learn an array of foreign languages, building a new generation of multilingual Americans. The program maximizes student involvement via games, projects, music, and other activities, engaging children with a high-energy setting and helping them learn vocabulary and sentence structure through repetition, visual cues, and song. Classes are 60 or 85 minutes long and are offered in Spanish, Mandarin, Italian, German, and French, all taught by native speakers from around the globe. Sessions are capped at eight children per instructor, ensuring a level of personalized attention normally only available to the home-schooled and those in schools of hard knocks. With today’s Groupon, children can enroll in one class for four consecutive weeks and will also receive a CD of foreign-language songs, allowing for continued learning in the car, kitchen, or kid-friendly discotheque.
Reviews
Language Stars has received lots of press, including features in the Lake Zurich Patch, Parents Magazine, _Northwest Chicago Woman Newspaper, and the Chicago Tribune.
- The full immersion or what Language Stars has coined the phrase, “FunImmersion” method is used during the story time because “that is the best way for anyone to learn a new language,” said Wang. – Victoria Remback, Lake Zurich Patch