Testimonials: Studies

Testimonials

Top 6 reasons to learn a new language

Client Need

Corporate
Beacon Hill Elementary School, (member of the Lester B. Pearson School Board in Quebec) wishes to offer an extra-curricular Spanish course to its students.

Solution

Extracurricular Spanish classes were offered by a teacher from the LNM Academy for 6 years, on a daily basis, to approximately 30 children in grades 4, 5 and 6.

Result

The students acquired the basics of their third language from primary school age.

Susan Hamblin Brayne

Directrice.

The students at Beacon Hill Elementary School enjoy Mr. Calvino's after-school Spanish course. Our students are now trilingual due to Mr. Calvino's dedication, enthousiasm and fun lessons.

Client Need

Corporate
As part of a research protocol, the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal (IUGM) wishes to teach Spanish to monolingual French-speaking and English-speaking elderly people between 60 and 80 years old.

Solution

The institute's facilities were used for a series of 17 semi-intensive Spanish courses for three groups of about ten participants each.

Result

All the participants completed the programme, facilitating the analysis of the data collected in the research.

Aline Moussard

Projet recherche l'Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal.

Wilfred Calvino a su offrir des cours de qualité: stimulants et intéressants, fidèle au contenu demandé, et adapté au niveau de chacun malgré l'hétérogénéité des groupes. Son style d'enseignement, son dynamisme et sa bonne humeur contagieuse, ainsi que son accessibilité, ont séduit les participants du projet et grandement contribué à leur motivation tout au long de cette aventure.