Where the values and benefits of multilingualism are embraced! Register or get more information for • Summer Camp (details) • • 2014 After-school Program with optional transportation (details) • • Overseas Summer Program 2014 • • All other language programs • For more information on any of our classes or camps, please call : 510-306-4229 Registrations open for our Introductory Korean classes starting in May New Adult French Beginners Classes starting in May
Our distinguished enrichment program offers a broad range of extracurricular options. Our objective is to offer our ethnically diverse and rich community language learning opportunities with a balanced theory and practice curriculum. We strongly believe that by integrating a play-based philosophy into the curriculum and engaging students in ways that motivated them are key to make their learning experience a success. To achieve that goal, the foreign languages are associated to the universal language of art and instruction of artistic skills is performed not only in English but also in Spanish. We also use power point presentations and computer-based programs to supplement and/or differentiate learning and provide practice of the target language. We strongly believe that new languages can broaden the horizons and offer more opportunities in the future as the students discover their own linguistic and cultural heritage or chose to open doors to new languages and cultures. We aim to provide proficiency and fluency in French, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin, Russian, Arabic, Korean, Japanese, English as a Second Language (ESL) as well as Creative Writing & Comprehension. Contact us if you would like a new class offered, we will make every effort to open a class suitable to your needs. SAT preparation, Chinese calligraphy, drawing and painting classes are some of our more recent offerings. Our class schedule is available, you could also contact us by pre-registering to check availability within a certain class. Class sizes are restricted to ensure the best learning experience possible. Bay Language Academy learning is designed around a carefully designed curriculum. Focusing on the specific needs of students and their parents, the classes are offered once, twice or three times weekly after school in 75 to 150-minute sessions. Parents are informed after each class of what was covered and what is expected from the young students for the next session. By keeping the parents informed and by creating a studious yet fun environment, where students are engaged and motivated, we have been able as a team, to accomplish amazing results that were beyond our expectations, as instructors and parents. Students are engaged in role play, book and video learning, story telling and art workshops. Each class is tailored to the unique needs of the students in the class and will therefore vary depending on the dynamic of each particular group. Our textbooks and pedagogical materials have been carefully selected for their relevance to our student's needs. An extensive library of additional cultural and linguistic learning material are used by our instructors. For those who are interested in international recognition, tailored courses are available on weekdays and weekends for Certification Preparation such as DELF for French or DELE for Spanish. Classes are designed around the FSI language scale . So whether you want to communicate with colleagues or just want to be involved in our rich and diverse community in a more effective manner or even plan to learn a
language for your next vacation (travel-specific classes), we will try our best to accommodate your language needs. We offer regularly-scheduled classes for all levels over a 10-months period for young students and over a 10-weeks period for adult students who usually renew their classes over the course of the year. Classes for professionals are designed around
the specialized language needs in the legal, medical or real estate fields. We are aware that everyone has different educational needs, so it’s important for us to talk/meet individually with each and every student to assess them and discuss their expectations so we can find a good fit. Our foreign language program is implemented within a cultural context, so by providing an in-depth, linguistic and cultural instruction, we create aunique blend of stimulating environment and dynamic learning experience. We encourage students to be enriched by new cultures and to discover hidden opportunities. Students of all age (preschool to retirees) come to learn—or enhance existing skills in different languages. "The survival of the language goes by that of the culture it conveys." - Jacques Attali - The Human Path “Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture“ - Anthony Burgess - "Learning another language is like the beginning of another life". - Michel Bouthot - From: de Chemins parsemés d'immortelles pensées. " Each language tells the world in its own way. Each builds worlds and anti-worlds in its own way. The polyglot is a freer man" - Rudolf Steiner " Chaque culture traverse les phases évolutives de l'homme en particulier. Chacune a son enfance, sa jeunesse, sa maturité et sa vieillesse" - Oswald Spengler - Extrait du Le Déclin de l'Occident.
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