by Karen Chapple | Sep 12, 2013 | Bilingualism in Children
Imagine you are an English mother or father… Your partner could be French, Spanish or German (pick any language that the VICI Language Academy teaches!) and you move to their native country. How much would you want your children to speak English, to be bilingual? Now...
by Nathalie Danon | Aug 30, 2013 | Bilingualism in Children, Latest News, Learn a Language
They say time flies when you’re having fun and here at the VICI Language Academy we always aim to make learning fun and just last week we had what must be our most lovely comment about this! We had a little boy who was already bilingual (his Dad is French and his Mum...
by Nathalie Danon | Aug 15, 2013 | Benefiting Business, Bilingualism in Children, Latest News, Learn a Language
Learning a foreign language is such a rewarding experience and can add so much pleasure to your travel and various cultural experiences; but, despite all our efforts, sometimes our great expectations turn into dismal disappointments. I often use an analogy between...
by Nathalie Danon | Aug 8, 2013 | Bilingualism in Children, Latest News, Learn a Language
We had a tremendous response to the recent blog ‘Sacrifice’ which looked at the emotional cost to VICI Language Academy founder Nathalie Danon-Kerr of sending her children to France to help them become truly bilingual while spending the holidays with their...
by Nathalie Danon | Aug 2, 2013 | Bilingualism in Children, Latest News, Learn a Language
If you really feel that helping your children becoming bilingual is a true asset, then there is always a cost involved in something that is worth doing or having… For most parents at the VICI Language Academy it is an investment in terms of time and money… But...
by Nathalie Danon | Jul 24, 2013 | Benefiting Business, Bilingualism in Children, Latest News, Learn a Language, Uncategorized
This was the pertinent questions when I delivered a talk on languages and careers at St. Bartholomew’s School in Newbury in my capacity as the founder of The VICI Language Academy. Naturally I was already talking to young people who were either gifted at languages or...
