What is Espaniños?
Espaniños is the International House USA program in the Spanish language for young people. It has been designed as a before-school or after-school program for young learners between the ages of three and sixteen. Our aim is to help non-Spanish speaking children learn to love languages and speak Spanish confidently.

Why Espaniños?
The need for an effective and fun language course for young learners is more evident than ever with school budget cuts doing away with public support for languages learning. Unfortunately, this comes at the time when your child is most respective to language acquisition-that is a learning a language before the age of 11 is easy for children. Children are more able to acquire a native accent in the target language and they do not struggle with the grammar rules the way adult learners do.

IH has put its world-wide recognition in the language training to the task of developing this Spanish program for your child. We want your child to enjoy the experience of learning a second language by using a sound linguistic framework: using music, games, visual, crafts and cultural activities to fully immerse your child in a Spanish-speaking environment during each class session. We hope that though the Espaniños experience your child will want to continue learning Spanish throughout his/her life. Many opportunities await foreign language speaker: opportunities to not only visit Spanish speaking countries but also to fully experience the culture, to take courses at the Spanish universities, or take advantage of study-abroad programs. Speakers of other languages also have been shown to earn significantly more money in their careers.

All IH teachers are certified to teach a foreign language using the communicative approach. Each child will receive a certificate of completion at the end of each term and can then be promoted to the next level.

• Content-based curriculum-changes weekly and is age appropriate
• Weekly worksheet-showing contents covered in the classes plus ideas for extra practice at home
• Practice in each language skill: listening, speaking, (for children who are not yet reading) reading, writing (for children who are reading)
• Only Spanish is spoken by the teachers and is presented in amusing ways using visuals, videos, songs, and crafts in a “full-immersion” environment
• Spanish culture is introduced through music, dance, and food!