Lango – Foreign Languages for Kids

PARENTS BEWARE!
Investing in your child learning a second language is a substantial decision. After reading some positive reviews we felt inclined to try the program. This program offers ZERO mentorship and or personalized instruction for students. If you are looking for a cattle herding program to spend abstract amounts of money on then you found a winner! While the teachers are friendly we have seen a reversion in our daughter’s ability to speak French. The school would love to mistakenly claim that it is due to poor attendance on my Child’s part but unfortunately that is not the case. While connecting colored lines to dogs and singing songs my daughter completely regressed in her abilities. What is shameful is that the school provides no feedback to parents other than «Your daughter is not ready for the next class, please pay more money and try again.» Public schools with severe overcrowding provide more parent feedback than this program. The program is really geared towards families with bilingual parents so that the PARENT and not the school does the actual teaching. After the parents do the actual teaching the school provides some stickers and tries to take credit for their overpriced daycare service. We were never once given a progress report on our child or tips, advice, coaching or anything of the sort to help her progress. We were led to believe that she was excelling until they told us that she could not move on. Not even the note from her teacher at the end of the classes told us this information. Now i would have not had a problem with their feedback had they not waited 10 weeks to tell me this. Seems like a great way to keep pulling in cash from families.
Now, ranting on Unilocal for fun is not acceptable so lets understand more of the facts. Unless you want to spend the equivalent of monthly apartment rent for more classes, sending your child to their once a week class will teach them as much of a foreign language as they would get from speaking with the drive through attendant at your local fast food restaurant. They provide 1 cd, 1 «language (i.e. coloring book)» and 1 sheet of paper as homework on a weekly basis. My daughter would learn more from me at night as i worked through Rosetta stone (an actual language program/​school) and pointed to pictures on a book than she did in her class. I’d be more than happy to take your hundreds of dollars in daycare fees and give you a coloring book and homemade cd so that you can save yourself the hassle of driving there.
Lastly, when my wife tried to provide constructive feedback to the school the literally freaked out. The head instructor wrote a completely bogus and defensive e-​mail trying to cover up the program’s shortcomings. It is sad because real human beings rely on both positive and negative feedback to improve, but i guess their facility has already been blessed to perfection by every deity so improvement would be impossible (oh wait they actually can’t help kids improve either). They were so hyper-​obsessed with my wife’s negative review that they are still complaining about it through e-​mails like the 3 year old’s they teach.
I’d like to make it clear that the teachers are very friendly and I’m sure great people (the program and head instructor are disasters.) Please think carefully about what type of learning environment your child does best in. There are many wonderful resources, books, internet learning that will save you, time, money and protection from the wrath of the head instructor that are better options.

My 18 month daughter enjoys the mandarin class with Miss Mei. The class includes short activities of singing, story time, games, etc. Miss Mei is very good about getting the kids to participate. My daughter started counting 1 – 10 in mandarin after a couple of sessions! Also, the class is 45 minutes long which is great for kids her age.
P. S. She seems to really like the mandarin cds that was provided too — we let her listen to the cd during the car rides and it’s one of the only ways to get her to stay in her car seat.

I do not recommend them. They do not disclose all information about their classes. It is limited to very young kids. We enrolled our 10 years old son in the Spanish class for 5 – 10, but when the class started, we found out that all kids were at 5 years old level. Requesting for refund as was accepted by them, resulted in $ 20 deduction and following note:
«An administration fee was applied to this refund as stated on our policy. When you sign up for programs, please be sure to know what you are signing up for that way you save people time and the hassle of refunds. Thanks!»
Also, when we were there, we asked for the receptionist and found out that the Spanish teacher (probabely the owner) is responsible for everything.

I send my girl there. She like the class and her teacher. She is kind and always smile~They annonce they teach language using the right method — –let the kids acquire a language instead of learn a language. That’s kids’ specialty! I saw kids sing songs, playing games using the language, which means they practised a lot. Recommend.