Useful Links
- This article highlights the importance of incorporating a second language in the home environment
- Ten benefits of early language learning
- Why learning Chinese is important
- Michael Driscoll School in Brookline, MA teaches Mandarin from K to 6. Here is a what a first grader says about Chinese without prior exposure
- Dr. Charles Yang emphasizes the importance of learning a foreign language as early as possible
- Howard Gardner's work on learning and multiple intelligences apply to children, teens and adults. Gardner explains that all seven intelligences are fluid and constantly changing and they encourage multiple ways to teach and reach a learner. Here is a link to explain the seven intelligences in Gardner's book: "Frame of Mind. The Theory of Multiple Intelligences." We feel that this app incorporates linguistic, mathematical, musical and kinesthetic intelligences!
