by Nathalie Danon | Feb 24, 2015 | Bilingualism in Children, Latest News, Learn a Language
What do you do when you child is bilingual and heading to secondary school? If they can speak French, the main language taught in UK secondary schools, should they still do it? How well do they speak and indeed write French? If they are truly bilingual then you...
by Nathalie Danon | Jul 25, 2014 | Bilingualism in Children, Graduation, Learn a Language
Wait! What? Yes, school might have broken up for the long summer holidays and that 2015 GCSE seems distant ship smoke on the horizon, but there really is no time like the present – or maybe September – to start revising – and VICI can help! Firstly let us say the...
by Nathalie Danon | Jul 24, 2014 | Benefiting Business, Bilingualism in Children, Learn a Language, Uncategorized
The brightest budding linguists at St. Bartholomew’s School in Newbury were given an insight into the importance of being bilingual in the modern world. The audience of some 50 students from years nine to 13 were taken from the school’s Gifted and Talented programme...
by Nathalie Danon | Feb 20, 2014 | Bilingualism in Children, Latest News, Learn a Language
It’s pretty tough to disagree that teaching children to learn a second language is wonderful! The benefits are evident; not only is it genuinely fulfilling and fun to do, when our children are older, the opportunities will be fantastic. But can we get it wrong when we...
by Nathalie Danon | Feb 15, 2014 | Bilingualism in Children, Latest News, Learn a Language
Here at the VICI Language Academy we are fair bursting with pride over our students most of the time, however sometimes you want to run through the streets of Newbury telling everyone! Readers of our newsletter will have already seen the case study about Tilly and...
by Nathalie Danon | Feb 5, 2014 | Benefiting Business, Bilingualism in Children, Learn a Language
The popularity of French in New York schools would surely be a reason to pop the Champagne corks with so many children benefiting from learning a second language? Not according to the website New Republic, which has demanded “Let’s Stop Pretending That French Is an...