Mila Lila Learning French


What or who is Mila Lila? 

It's a program to bring children in contact with french. The purpose is not learning french, they will definitely learn but that's not the main goal of the two kindergarten teachers (Suzi and Sofie) that made the whole program. I'm super bad in french but I have seen what a good impact Mila Lila has on the children.

Mila Lila

  • French language initiation for young children
  • It is created by two teacher, who still work as teachers.
  • It started as a hobby in their own classroom and is now becoming a success in more schools
  • Mila Lila developed into an educational project that focuses on multilingualism and diversity.

As we live in a multi-cultural world it is fantastic to introduce a foreign language in the classroom at a young age. Young children pick up a new language much faster when it is introduced in a natural way. As we all know that children learn new words every day. I had the pleasure to be an English teacher when I was in Valencia. We did not teach them just English words by translation. When I was in the classroom as an English teacher, it was context related. This way the children learned by doing. In order to teach the children the distinction between the languages, it was agreed at the school that only the English teacher would speak this language to the children. If another English teacher had to speak English, for example, he or she had to put on a magic hat.


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