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# Start Your Own Language Teaching Business | LCF Fun Languages Australia

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- [EXPERIENCE THE FREEDOM OF OPERATING A HOME BASED BUSINESS WITH FUN LANGUAGES](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/experience-the-freedom-of-operating-a-home-based-business-with-fun-languages/) - * Are you curious about starting a small business that will give you a more flexible lifestyle around your family? * Do you wonder how you can utilise your skills in languages to create a business you are passionate about? * Are you an enterprising, stay-at-home mum looking for a way to earn an income?
- [The 5 Stages of Second Language Acquisition](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/the-5-stages-of-second-language-acquisition/) - During childhood, the brain is more receptive to language learning than at any other time in a person’s life and starting foreign or second language learning early sets the stage for a child to develop advanced levels of proficiency in one or more languages. It is also increasingly being seen as a necessary 21st century
- [The Serendipity of Untranslatable Words](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/the-serendipity-of-untranslatable-words/) - Being a speaker of several languages, I often find a foreign word popping into one of my sentences when I am speaking English. Those of you who speak another language may support me in the fact that, just sometimes, there is a so much more succinct way of expressing something in another language, where English
- [Why You May Never Learn Another Language!](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/why-you-may-never-learn-another-language/) - "Is it hard to learn another language? Which is the easiest language to learn? How long will it take to learn another language?" These are questions I am constantly being asked by adults... adults who often regret the fact that they never mastered another language and, for that reason, are now motivated to give
- [Why Teaching Languages Should Be One Big Joke!](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/why-teaching-languages-should-be-one-big-joke/) - For most of you reading this, you will already have first-hand experience of learning at least one other language. So, at what point can one consider oneself “fluent” in another language? Can you call yourself fluent in French if you can make it around a French market or order confidently in a restaurant without too
- ["Monolingualism is the illiteracy of the 21st Century"](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/monolingualism-is-the-illiteracy-of-the-21st-century/) - Time Magazine recently published an article that once again illustrates the plethora of benefits that kids gain by being bilingual and stresses the importance of giving children the opportunity to learn a second language. And starting the langage learning journey as early as possible!! A move by state education officials to introduce an ambitious total
- [New partnership with Kids Planet,](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/new-partnership-with-kids-planet/) - LCF Fun Languages is delighted to be partnering with Kids Planet in Albany, Auckland, to provide a bilingual program to the lucky children in their new transition room. This brand new area at Kids Planet will provide a perfect linguistic environment for the children to explore our play-based language programs. We were very excited that
- [How do our Kiwi principals feel about offering a second language?](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/how-do-our-kiwi-principals-feel-about-offering-a-second-language/) - We conducted a "mini survey" at the recently held New Zealand Principal's Federation Conference in Hamilton, NZ to get an idea of how principals felt about the importance of offering a second language at their school. The results confirmed what we already knew and the emerging trends with languages in New Zealand: 89% of principals
- [Why do parents love LCF Fun Languages?](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/why-do-parents-love-lcf-fun-languages/) - It gets their children using the language quickly and naturally “As parents, we know that engaging pre-schoolers in any activity, particularly new activities, is a big challenge but I have found the Spanish group teacher has all the right tricks through song, dance and group activities to bring even the shyest toddler along and engaged
- [Free Cultural Experience at your school!](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/free-cultural-experience-at-your-school/) - Free offer to all Australasian Primary and Intermediate Schools! An experience of a foreign country without the travelling! Based on 25 years of language teaching experience, LCF Fun Languages is pleased to offer a complimentary culture session (either French, Spanish or Mandarin) for your school. Our fun cultural experience will be 1-2 hours full of
- [Language Acquistion vs. Language Learning](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/language-acquistion-vs-language-learning/) - There is an important distinction made by linguists between ‘language acquisition’ and ‘language learning’. “Acquisition requires meaningful interaction in the target language – natural communication – in which speakers are concerned not with the form of their utterances but with the messages they are conveying and understanding.” Stephen Krashen (The Natural Approach) There is an
- [Are Kiwi students "Asia Ready"?](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/are-kiwi-students-asia-ready/) - Our first two days exhibiting at the 2013 NZPF Conference in Hamilton have underscored the fact that there is a growing need for Mandarin as an in-school language option for all New Zealand students with a genuine interest from school principals across the board. And with a talk on Friday by John McKinnon, executive director of
- [Do the languages we speak influence the way we perceive the world?](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/do-the-languages-we-speak-influence-the-way-we-perceive-the-world/) - Do people who speak different languages, whether it's English, Spanish, Mandarin or any one of the 7000 odd languages in existence, end up remembering and understanding their respective life experiences differently simply by virtue of their mother tongue? An article in the Wall Street Journal explains how recent research suggests that the answer may be
- [What does it take to be a great language teacher?](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/what-does-it-take-to-be-a-great-language-teacher/) - "Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” – (Benjamin Franklin) The teacher is one of the single most important components of the language leanrning experience and their teaching style can make the difference between a successful learning outcome for the language student and one in which
- [Why learn another language?](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/why-learn-another-language/) - A study carried out not too long ago by the European Commission, described the only two native English speaking member states, namely the UK and Ireland, as “having moderate language skills” in comparison with other EU countries. About two thirds of the people in the UK and Ireland speak only English whereas the majority of
- [Music is key in learning languages](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/music-is-key-in-learning-languages/) - Using regular and repetitive methods to expose children to a language is a great way to teach them the language and music is a great way to do that! A child's ear naturally atunes to the melody and words without realising it. "The neurological links between language and music are vast but the basic thing
- [$15.2 million package to promote Asian languages in Australian schools](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/15-2-million-package-to-promote-asian-languages-in-australian-schools/) - Let's face it...a language like Mandarin Chinese is not the easiest for a monolingual Australian child to master. However, it is very important if future generations of Australians are to compete on a global platform If you have experience of teaching Mandarin Chinese to Australian kids, we would love your viewpoint. What are the
- [Are there any negatives to being bilingual?](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/are-there-any-negatives-to-being-bilingual/) - Individuals who are bilingual are actually juggling multiple identities, and from the perspective of identity, this might be considered negative by some. For instance, you may see a difference in an individual’s response to a personality test or other psychological measure based on the language the tests are in. But on the other hand, it
- [What are the motivators for learning another language ...](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/what-are-the-motivators-for-learning-another-language/) - ... and what is the difference between an integrative and an influential motivator? The saying that language is “best learned between the sheets” is a perfect example of an integrative motivating factor. Integrative motivation is when an individual learns a foreign language, say for instance Spanish, with the aim of integrating into Spanish society. The language
- [The Role of Language Learning in Culture](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/the-role-of-language-learning-in-culture/) - The ever increasing role that Asia is playing in the futures of both Australia and New Zealand, and in particular the economic and social importance of China as a regional neighbour and trading partner for both countries, is not “new” news. And particularly, as it pertains to second language learning, much has been written on the
- [New LIVE LOVE LANGUAGES Newsletter Launching Soon!](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/new-live-love-languages-newsletter-launching-soon/) - LIVING LOVING LANGUAGE! We LOVE teaching languages to kids and adults of all ages. Are you looking for ideas and resources to be able to teach and promote language and culture? Our team of inspiring teachers and managers are passionate about the opportunities that languages present to young Australians and New Zealanders! And we
- [I Speak Dora](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/i-speak-dora/) - It is always refreshing to sit down on a mat with a group of enthusiastic pre-school children, their eyes wide, their minds open, ready to learn, ready to soak up new words and information, like little sponges. I have been teaching languages to children, young and older people for about 25 years now. Teaching languages
- [Babelzone: Why LOTE teachers and Schools love our Language Learning Resource!](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/babelzone-why-lote-teachers-and-schools-love-our-language-learning-resource/) - It is not easy to teach a second language and children can get easily bored with traditional teaching methods. This is what led LCF Clubs to create the global interactive language learning website which is helping to revolutionise how children learn. Read here about how it all began. Babelzone is structured to suit all levels
- [That Foreign Language May Not Be As Foreign As You Think. Or Might It?](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/that-foreign-language-may-not-be-as-foreign-as-you-think-or-might-it/) - Our ability to form a limitless number of thoughts into a spoken word is what distinguishes the human species from our less evolved cousins but, while we know that language first appeared among Homo sapiens around 30 000 to 100 000 years ago, we still don't know all the secrets of exactly HOW language evolved,
- [Why Do Our Fun Languages Franchisees LOVE What They Do?](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/why-do-our-fun-languages-franchisees-love-what-they-do/) - If you are looking for a flexible rewarding business, that works around you and your family, we would love to hear from you! ENQUIRE NOW. You can find out more about LCF Fun Languages franchise opportunitiesfranchise opportunities or DOWNLOAD AN INFORMATION PACK HERE We're so proud of our wonderful team of managers and language teachers - they
- [Is Australia Guilty of "Linguistic Paranoia"?](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/is-australia-guilty-of-linguistic-paranoia/) - Having taught languages to children and young adults in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, I was very interested in an article that I read yesterday by Misty Adoniou, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Canberra. The article considers whether Australians have "linguistic paranoia" and, as a country, is happy to be multicultural but remains
- [Language Extinction Is Driven By Economic Growth](https://teachinglanguages.com.au/language-extinction-is-driven-by-economic-growth/) - What are the main drivers and repercussions behind the extinction of the worlds minority languages? It's estimated that by the year 2100, over half of the Planet Earth's 7000 languages - many of them not yet even recorded - may disappear. With a different tongue dying approximately every 2 weeks, it would appear that languages

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