Nine reasons
to give your child the gift of a bilingual education.

• Take advantage of your child's window of opportunity for learning a second language easily and naturally.
• Enrich and enhance your child's mental development.
• Increase your child's ability to have more flexibility in thinking, greater sensitivity to language, and a better ear for listening.
• Improve your child's understanding of his or her native language.
• Give your child the ability to communicate with people she or he would not otherwise know.
• Open the door to other cultures.
• Increase understanding, appreciation and empathy for people from other cultures.
• Give your child a head start in language requirements for college.
• Increase career and educational opportunities in fields where language fluency is a real asset.