The experience of a bilingual kindergarten in Melbourne

Learning a new language as a child is much easier

Learning a new language as a child is much easier Source: pexels

Siobhan Hannan was the initiator of a bilingual kindergarten in Melbourne back in the '90s.


The North West Brunswick kindergarten started to offer an Italian program back in the 1990s. Siobhan Hannan started the program and taught there for about twenty years, instilling a love not only of the Italian languages but of languages in general in the young students who attended over the years.

The full 15 hour bilingual preschool program is still offered today and attracts young students from all backgrounds.

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