• Studies show that children exposed to languages and cultures other than their own have a greater sense of the global community and will be more tolerant of different cultures.  Not only will children's minds be expanded by their second language exposure, studies also show that children who have been exposed to another language at an early age better grasp the nuances of English.

• Immersion students do as well as or better than comparable non-immersion students in English language skills, math, science, and social studies.

• Children learn language by listening and repeating, and don't have any fear of a "foreign" lanugage.

• Because these children have "learned" how to learn another language, they will pick up subsequent foreign languages more easily.