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Today's Date is June 28, 2025
The IES Language Foundation works with and through schools to offer foreign language programs at your child’s school. IES offers classes in Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. Classes can be held before or after school or during the school day as part of the curriculum.
By enrolling your child in an IES language program you are giving them a head start, preparing your child for adult life in the competitive international world in which we live. IES believes that you can not separate a language from its culture, so as your child learns a new language they also learn about the culture. By doing so IES programs help to increase multicultural sensitivity and understanding in the community, state, nation and world.
Research shows that they earlier we are exposed to foreign languages the better. When we are exposed at an early age we are more likely to speak as a native speaker in the language. For more information see the Parents News section.
The IES teaching methodology teaches children the same way they learn their mother tongue, through a series of games, songs, poems and activities. Children learn to communicate with single words, then short, simple sentences, and later complex sentences. Reading and writing come later with further study.
For more information about IES programs in your area visit the Classes area of this web site.
IF you have a child in an IES program contact us to tell us about it!
IES offers additional home reinforcement materials and our materials are also available for home schooling. Please visit our Catalog, for more information.
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Parent News
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The Language Brain |
October 15, 2003
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SKILL: Language
LEARNING WINDOW: Birth to 10 years
WHAT WE KNOW: Circuits in the auditory cortex, representing the sounds that form words, are wired by the age of 1. The more words a child hears by 2, the larger his/her vocabulary will grow.
WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT: Talk to your child—a lot. If you want him/her to master a second language, introduce it by the age of 10.
Newsweek
Your Child’s Brain
February 19, 1996
article by Sharon Begley
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What People Say
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This story was submitted by: Helen Eberle
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August 12, 2003
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Yesterday, out of the blue, my son and daughter both started using some spanish words, like "vamonos" (lets go), and "si"!
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