Baby & Me Language Classes in Tribeca
45 minutes of songs, pedagogical activities, fun games, movement, and play — entirely in your language, with you right there beside them. Ages 6 months to 2.5 years.
Just fun and bonding. No screens. Most of our parents don't speak a word.
Just fun and bonding. No screens. Most of our parents don't speak a word.
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Choose your language
Each page has that language's schedule, teacher and openings.
Each page has that language's schedule, teacher and openings.
What a class looks like
We start on the mat with a hello song, move into movement and sensory play, and finish with a story. Everything happens in the target language — your teacher never switches to English, and neither do you, even if all you can manage is the chorus.
You'll leave each week with the handful of phrases we used, so the language keeps going at home: bath time, meals, getting dressed. That repetition at home is what makes it stick.
Two kinds of families come to us
You already speak the language and want your child to keep it — to answer their grandmother, not just understand her. You'll find a room full of parents doing the same thing.
You don't speak a word and want to start early. That's most of our families. You don't need any preparation — come as you are and sing along badly with the rest of us.
Ready to join?
Tell us the language and your child's age, and we'll send current times and openings within one business day.
We start on the mat with a hello song, move into movement and sensory play, and finish with a story. Everything happens in the target language — your teacher never switches to English, and neither do you, even if all you can manage is the chorus.
You'll leave each week with the handful of phrases we used, so the language keeps going at home: bath time, meals, getting dressed. That repetition at home is what makes it stick.
Two kinds of families come to us
You already speak the language and want your child to keep it — to answer their grandmother, not just understand her. You'll find a room full of parents doing the same thing.
You don't speak a word and want to start early. That's most of our families. You don't need any preparation — come as you are and sing along badly with the rest of us.
Ready to join?
Tell us the language and your child's age, and we'll send current times and openings within one business day.
It is indeed a major advantage in life to be able to speak a second language and the earlier one is exposed the better.
As caregivers or parents, you are wise to be willing to learn the target language because you are the best (and most important) early language teachers.
With babies, sensory & motor skill play is combined with music as well as similar tactics you will use to encourage the recognition and repetition of baby's first words in English for second language work. To your process we are able to add our approach for learning words and phrases most necessary in baby's world. Inquire about the private Baby & Me classes in a language of your choice: Arabic, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.
As caregivers or parents, you are wise to be willing to learn the target language because you are the best (and most important) early language teachers.
With babies, sensory & motor skill play is combined with music as well as similar tactics you will use to encourage the recognition and repetition of baby's first words in English for second language work. To your process we are able to add our approach for learning words and phrases most necessary in baby's world. Inquire about the private Baby & Me classes in a language of your choice: Arabic, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.
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The sooner you start the process, the more multilingual vocabulary gets stored into a single file in the brain. This is a big advantage. It's important at this stage to have targeted listening time for your children, as exposure is key right now to help them build associations in their brains.
Our Baby & Me sessions are specifically designed to teach the caregiver the most commonly used questions, commands, expressions and practical vocabulary you will be using with your child in your day-to-day lives and how to encourage use at home. We teach you how to use common household items in addition to our Practice Tools to infuse your home with a second language.
Our Baby & Me sessions are specifically designed to teach the caregiver the most commonly used questions, commands, expressions and practical vocabulary you will be using with your child in your day-to-day lives and how to encourage use at home. We teach you how to use common household items in addition to our Practice Tools to infuse your home with a second language.
In bilingual homes, it is helpful if one parent works primarily on English while the other works on the target language. For example, if you have one of those baby's first words books and say, for example, you are looking at a page for YELLOW which has a few pictures of items that are yellow (a chick, a banana, a sunflower) - one parent works with pointing to the pictures and saying the words in English (and when developmentally appropriate, encouraging repetition!) and in another sitting, the other parent uses the same book to work on that vocabulary in the second language.