Summer Spanish Classes Lamorinda

I'm looking for fun summer Spanish lessons in Moraga/Lafayette/Orinda for an elementary age child who has never studied before. I saw some classes offered through local community centers but they focus on preschool-K age kids. Any ideas? I'd love to find someplace close by where we can enroll during the school year as well.

Spanish classes for toddlers

I am looking into Spanish classes for my twins. I am hoping to find classes, locally that start teaching kids around 2 years of age. Any recommendations?? isabella

Summer Spanish class for Teens

My son has had poor Spanish preparation in middle school and we'd like to prepare him for Spanish 3/4 in high school in the fall. Any suggestions on classes and/or tutors who could help him catch up over the summer? We already plan to cap off the classes with an immersion program in Mexico, so I'm already aware of programs abroad (but if you have had an exceptionally good experience with one, especially in Oaxaca, I'd like to hear about that, too). Thanks! Robin

Spanish for 1-3 year olds

I am looking for videos that teach young children basic spanish. I do not speak/understand spanish myself. Individual videos or a series would be great. Please let me know where these videos are available also. Any recommendtions would be appreciated. Princess3kaz

Bilingual Baby Spanish
So Smart! Spanish
Lyric Language Spanish
Peli the Clown

I am looking for CDs or tapes to help my 1 year olds learn Spanish. ginnyfine

I would love to introduct my children to the basics of the Spanish language, with a fun class including music. Does anybody know of something like this? Thank you! Michelle

we also have 3 or 4 disney 'canta con nosotrsos'' videos, and she likes one for a month or two and then changes her mind... they occasionally have some scary song/scenes (well, scary for my kid), but the rhythms are great--they're disney songs! the only other i can speak to is the ''family circus learns spanish'' (or something similar). inadvisably bought at barnes & noble on a whim--cheesy, hard to follow songs (hard to follow in English AND in spanish), kids doing cheesy things... one more thing: if you don't have them, jose luis orozco's De Colores, an audio tape and a book (sold separately) are great, and everyone--my mother, my aunts, my kid--loves the songs. jessica

You can always get copies of favorite Disney movies dubbed in Spanish, but I have found those to be less interesting for toddlers. We do have a Spanish-dubbed copy of Blue's Clues that my daughter enjoys, but Steve's mismatched lips and voice drive me crazy! Jaime

Check out Language Link, a broker for many Spanish immersion programs. Language Link www.langlink.com. The director is Kay Rafool, and she visits and works with every program she sponsors. She charges no additional fees for booking through her business. I have complete confidence in her, because she helped my older son find a program that he attended at age 17. He had such an incredible experience that my younger son and I decided to attend this August. The program (described on Language Link website) is Intercultura, an immersion program in Heredia, Costa Rica - living with a family. This is the first year they're offering a 'teen' program. Kay wrote:

The teens aren't necessarily together, and most often when parent and child go together, they live in the same house. The teen program is basically the same format, just with a little more attention and guidance. They will group teens together in a class so that they are with their own age group. Also, this year the school plans to have a faculty buddy-mentor type for each teen and to organize some social events just for them. It still is a program which requires maturity and independence for the teens, as it is not extremely closely supervised.

The website explains that the program offers lots of side trips on the weekends, very inexpensive.

But there are many other programs at Language Link that you could discuss with Kay.

Maryl