Bilingual school: Overview of schools and information

The supply of bilingual schools is constantly increasing - as is the demand. However, many parents wonder why their child should be taught bilingually at school. Various arguments are clearly in favor of bilingual education:

1. children between the ages of three and eight learn a foreign language through play and without any learning stress

2. children who are confronted with a foreign language at a very early age, e.g. through bilingual schooling, expand their language skills in their mother tongue as well as in the foreign language and increase their self-confidence

3. a foreign language learned at an early age is memorized almost accent-free and grammatically flawless

4. the chances of multilingual children also increase dramatically later in their educational and professional lives

5. children become bilingual, flexible and adaptable due to the constant change of language in a school

6. children learn very early on to understand their own culture and that of the other language by changing perspectives as soon as the language change takes place

7 If a school is run bilingually, it is usually attended by children from different cultures and countries. This gives your child an insight into families of different origins and customs

If you would like to find out more about the various bilingual private schools on offer, we recommend a visit to Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch. Numerous private kindergartens and schools - some of which are run bilingually - present their offers.