{"id":647,"date":"2008-04-10T17:29:13","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T16:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/10\/sponge\/"},"modified":"2008-04-10T17:29:13","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T16:29:13","slug":"sponge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"Soaking up languages like a sponge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.king5.com\/education\/stories\/NW_040908EDK_learningtolearn_languages_SW.4940b3cb.html\">report<\/a> I found today talks about a school in Seattle called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spongeschool.com\/\">sponge<\/a> which aims to teach babies and children four languages &#8211; Spanish, Mandarin, French and Japanese &#8211; through play, songs, stories, etc. They have teachers who are native speakers of the languages they teach and take children from as young 5 months and up to 5 years old.<\/p>\n<p>This sounds like an interesting approach to language teaching and I&#8217;m sure that children will benefit from this multilingual environment. I wonder whether they&#8217;ll become fluent in all the languages though &#8211; they may not get sufficient exposure to each to acquire them fully. Perhaps that isn&#8217;t the point of the school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report I found today talks about a school in Seattle called sponge which aims to teach babies and children four languages &#8211; Spanish, Mandarin, French and Japanese &#8211; through play, songs, stories, etc. They have teachers who are native speakers of the languages they teach and take children from as young 5 months and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,132,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-language-acquisition","category-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}