French for Kids method to learn French is based on the natural process followed when learning the mother tongue, it’s an educational journey which follows a logical, natural, and spontaneous order.
It is evident that the language acquisition process begins long before the child starts speaking. For this reason, at French For Kids we believe children should start learning French from the age of one through daily exposure to the new language.
After hearing the same combinations of words at different times and in different contexts, the child eventually understands the meaning of everything they hear. Parents communicate with their children by speaking in a natural way, using a wide variety of words, expressions and phrases in different tenses. The French for kids method reproduces this situation with its students and exposes them to language as it is, through contexts that are easily recognisable to them.
Talking is the natural consequence of listening and understanding. At this point in their journey, we create situations in the classroom where the students have the opportunity to verbalise and put into context everything they have learnt up to that point.
Reading is a natural consequence of listening, understanding, and speaking. Starting to learn a language by reading and writing it first is unnatural; it is like trying to make a bird fly before it knows how to spread its wings. At French for kids our students start reading in French from the age of 8, that is to say, once they have consolidated their oral language skills and can already read in their mother tongue.
Writing is expressing your thoughts on paper. To reach this stage of language development, it is essential to have passed the previous stages: listening, understanding, speaking and reading. When our students begin to write in Fench, they already have a solid enough foundation of the language to be aware of what they are communicating in written form. In other words, at French for kids we introduce this skill at a time when the students are most ready to tackle it successfully.
Quality and experience have always been our highest priorities and we work every day to maintain them. The constant improvement of materials, teacher training, personalised monitoring of the students, and regular communication with families form the solid base that guarantees learning.
French for kids teachers not only complete initial training before being able to teach, but also undergo continuous training and refresher training in accordance with their corporate training plan. They are also audited every term to ensure optimal implementation of the method.
