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\n\u201c\u2026 There\u2019s a world of difference between teaching young children a language with methods designed specifically and exclusively for them, such as the Thibaut Technique \u2026.\u201d
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\n\u201cThe more children are engaged, the more likely they are to retain a language,\u201d Thibaut says. \u201cYou engage children in different ways depending on the age. With these little ones, you can engage them with your voice, with the gestures, with the way you look at them.\u201d
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\n\u201cFran\u00e7ois Thibaut teaches children how to speak French. His love of the children and enthusiasm for what he is teaching is legendary among New York parents.\u201d
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\n\u201cThibaut uses action games so that youngsters learn to take direction in French, skits to sharpen communication skills, plus workbooks and tapes.\u201d
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\n\u201cEarly learning is thriving in New York. It sounds like beginner\u2019s French, the only difference is that the students have not yet learned how to speak. This is The Language Workshop for Children.\u201d
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\n[Fran\u00e7ois Thibaut] \u201cis one of a very few experts in teaching languages to small children.\u201d
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\u201cAt The Language Workshop for Children teachers speak only the target language in their immersion programs and the teacher never translates \u2026\u201d
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\n\u201cFour year old Alexandra D. talks to her toy animals in Japanese. At snack time, she spontaneously shifts to French. Lindsay S. at age 8 shows an ability to carry on a basic conversation in French without the slightest English accent. Both have been students since the age of 2 at The Language Workshop for Children.\u201d
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\u201cThibaut has spent his life developing his own series of children\u2019s classes (the Language Workshop for Children), teaching methods (the Thibaut Technique) and educational materials (the Professor Toto Language Education Series).\u201d
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\n\u201c6 BABY CLASSES WORTH THE $$$\u201d
\nForeign Language: The Language Workshop For Children
\nLearning a second language enhances a child\u2019s awareness of her primary one. And the similarities and differences between the languages help her understand the sounds, the words, and the rules for putting sentences together. \u2018Plus, the more words a child hears by 2, the more her vocabulary will grow,\u2019 says Cindy Kennedy Reedy, a child-development specialist at Arcadia University, in Glenside, Pennsylvania. \u201cThese classes engage babies with short, language-based activities that incorporate song.\u201d
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\n\u201cWell-to-do parents line up around the block to enroll their infants and toddlers in Fran\u00e7ois Thibaut\u2019s language classes.\u201d
\nread the October 09, 1999 Wall Street Journal article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOnce our daughter got past her initial confusion of a Spanish-only setting, she was engaged by the fast-paced, lively class.\u201d
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