Media Praise
“… There’s a world of difference between teaching young children a language with methods designed specifically and exclusively for them, such as the Thibaut Technique ….”
read Associated Press article
“The more children are engaged, the more likely they are to retain a language,” Thibaut says. “You 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.”
read the NY Family Article
“François 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.”
read The New York Times article
“Thibaut uses action games so that youngsters learn to take direction in French, skits to sharpen communication skills, plus workbooks and tapes.”
read New York Magazine article
“Early learning is thriving in New York. It sounds like beginner’s French, the only difference is that the students have not yet learned how to speak. This is The Language Workshop for Children.”
read BBC USA Direct News article
[François Thibaut] “is one of a very few experts in teaching languages to small children.”
read More From CNN’s Parenting Today’s Coverage
“At The Language Workshop for Children teachers speak only the target language in their immersion programs and the teacher never translates …”
read suite101 article
“Four 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.”
read Better Homes and Gardens article
“Thibaut has spent his life developing his own series of children’s classes (the Language Workshop for Children), teaching methods (the Thibaut Technique) and educational materials (the Professor Toto Language Education Series).”
read babble article
“6 BABY CLASSES WORTH THE $$$”
Foreign Language: The Language Workshop For Children
Learning a second language enhances a child’s 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. ‘Plus, the more words a child hears by 2, the more her vocabulary will grow,’ says Cindy Kennedy Reedy, a child-development specialist at Arcadia University, in Glenside, Pennsylvania. “These classes engage babies with short, language-based activities that incorporate song.”
read Parents Magazine article
“Well-to-do parents line up around the block to enroll their infants and toddlers in François Thibaut’s language classes.”
read the October 09, 1999 Wall Street Journal article
“Once our daughter got past her initial confusion of a Spanish-only setting, she was engaged by the fast-paced, lively class.”
read the May 06, 2010 Wall Street Journal article