The be.school method

We have developed a unique educational project enhancing the individuality of each child

A different language is a different outlook on life

Never before have languages been more and more in contact with each other.

Growing up with two languages involves greater mental flexibility: bilinguals are better able to focus attention and find it much easier to switch between tasks and adapt to new cognitive demands. On a cultural level, it is very likely that a bilingual individual can also be bicultural and adopt the customs, traditions and ideologies of the two languages.

Our educational method is based on the principle that the language must be “lived” and not “learned”, through play, music and dance. When language is play, it becomes a natural element in children’s lives.

Fun facts about be.school

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Years of experience in bilingual education

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Children enrolled in be.school since 2011

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Parents who have chosen be.school

Why is being bilingual from an early age so important?

The brains of preschool children are in an extraordinary phase of development.

There are so many studies that claim that the ability to learn languages slowly declines after childhood.

There is a critical period, a time window, within which learning a second language takes place effortlessly, because in their brain the same area of the cortex (that of language) is activated for both languages. The brain begins to recognize and differentiate two language channels, which however refer to the same concept and which therefore, at the peak of its moment of formation, is assimilated into both sounds.

Go beyond the critical period , which generally lasts up to seven years of age, would mean no longer being able to obtain native competence or almost, with the loss of some linguistic peculiarities, such as pronunciation or complete grammatical competence.

By the critical age, children are able to learn numerous procedures concerning different languages without there being conflicts or interference in their use. After the critical age, individuals tend to implement procedural schemes relating to the first language when they express themselves in the second, therefore to translate mentally the concepts before expressing them.