Anyone's child go to Thibaut Technique foreign language school or use the matrls

[luckylucy]

The schools are called The Language Workshop for Children founded by François Thibaut in 1973.  They use the Thibaut Technique which is full language immersion and specializes in infants, toddlers, and children.  The schools are in about 5 different states now and many of them are in New York City (of course).  You can also use their materials at home (cds, books, etc.).   "Professor Toto" is the dvd.

I would be sending my baby for French so I was wondering if anyone knew anything about the schools or the technique.  It gets great reviews on the internet but other than that I don't know more about it. 

Here is the website:

http://www.thibauttechnique.com/about_history.php 

Would love to know what you all think. 

[2010BEBES]

I run across their web page 2 days ago and found it interesting. My doubt is how much will they learn if it consists of one 45 minute sessions a week for babies.

[luckylucy]

I just talked to the woman on the phone and my understanding is that they can go to as many 45 minute sessions as they want.   And each workshop has different prices depending on the location around the country.  She said they have found that they babies who they teach in short bursts learn the foreign language a lot faster than the ones who sit in long sessions.  Of course totally immersion, like in a preschool is best, but usually babies under 2 years old aren't in preschool yet. 

She also said the two year olds who were exposed to the foreign language either by listening to cds or music at home or watching dvds or just hearing  a couple different phrases or words a day with their parents are much faster learners than ones that never heard the language before.  So she said that even if you think you 10 month old isn't learning or that what you are exposing her to is too limited, don't worry, she will have perfect phonetics and accent because she was absorbing the phonetics of the language many months before actually being taught it. 

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