Penpals4Kids: Learn French Differently — Real Connections Between Families Around the World

🧠Why start French early? Learning a second language from a young age is ideal — and neuroscience proves it. Children who are exposed to another language early on pick it up more naturally and effortlessly — much like their mother tongue. For example, did you know that babies under the age of 12 months can actually distinguish every sound used in all the world’s languages? This is called phonetic plasticity . After that first year, the brain starts to “tune in” to the sounds it hears most — meaning the earlier a child hears a foreign language, the easier it is for them to reproduce the sounds naturally, and even without an accent. 🔎 Source: PMC / NIH Think about it: you didn’t give your baby grammar lessons in English. Yet, after a few months of babbling, they started speaking. Why? Because they were surrounded by language — real language, in real human interactions. That’s the natural approach we believe in at Lessons4Kids . 💬 A living language is meant to be spoken… with real peop...