Building Brains Academy
Building Brains Academy is a Language Immersion Preschool, with a proven record of academic excellence. This year our SUMMER CAMP will begin enrolling in May. Please continue to follow us on Facebook and watch our website for details.
We want to make this summertime a fun and exciting time, with engaging daily activities while also preparing them for their next grade level. Children learn their best while having fun and for this we have prepared weekly fun themes with hand-on learning.
Our Lake Nona Summer Camp Program offers
“Bilingual children develop the ability to solve problems that contain conflicting or misleading cues at an earlier age, and they can decipher them more quickly than monolinguals. When so doing, they demonstrate an advantage with selective attention and greater executive or inhibitory control. Bilingual students also display greater facility in learning additional languages when compared with monolinguals.”
*Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
University of Minnesota’s Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition has found that children in language immersion programs benefit in many ways, including the following:
A recent Cornell University study indicates that the benefits of learning more than one language are expansive. Among them:
To access the full article: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2011/07/bilingualism-seems-boost-tots-minds
“One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.”
‒Frank Smith (Renowned Psycholinguist)
“The Total Immersion Method is the most effective way of developing foreign language proficiency”.
–ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center)
More than 220 million people speak French on five continents. French is the second most widely learned foreign language after English, and the sixth most widely spoken language in the world. The ability to speak French and English is an advantage on the international job market. French is the international language of cooking, fashion, theater, the visual arts, dance, and architecture.
Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken world language, used regularly by more than a billion people. Knowing the language can open many cultural and career opportunities. China has a booming economy and a status as a rising global superpower. Over the last 35 years, China has transformed itself from an impoverished country into one of the largest global economies.
Spanish is spoken by an estimated 350 million or more people around the world and is the fourth most commonly spoken language worldwide. In terms of geographical proximity, it makes sense to learn Spanish if you live in the U.S., because it is the language of the vast majority of our neighbors in the Western Hemisphere. Spanish is also a language that can be used frequently at home, as 17 percent of U.S. residents (and growing) are Hispanic.