At Valiente Dual Academy, a Spanish immersion class for local homeschooled children, we are passionate about teaching language through immersion. We found that our own children learn best through activities such as art, literature, games and songs, so we incorporate this fun and play-based teaching style into everything we do in our classes.
After raising our own children in a bilingual home, we discovered that language immersion has not only benefitted them with a second language, but also with better focus and deeper academic understanding. It has been proven in scientific studies that language immersion in young children enhances cognitive skills in problem solving, memory, attention control and even better understanding of their primary language.
During the earliest years of development, a child's brain is zoned-in to language learning. In an immersive and playful environment, children will retain information faster. While each child will respond differently, language exposure through immersion is the best way to encourage fluency.
As we grow in this new educational venture we have watched our students begin to recognize, read and speak in Spanish all while learning in a playful environment.
Señor Cristian Vasquez hails from San Diego, California. He began his own education journey in a bilingual school where he first learned to speak English. After working 10 years in the public school system, he decided to open Valiente Dual Academy, a Spanish Immersion class for homeschooled children so that more children would benefit from the gift of reading, understanding and speaking a second language.