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Any early years practitioner can try this approach to foreign language learning with the aid of rhymes, stories, games and puppet play. Children obviously have much to gain from learning a second language at a young age. But where do you start planning a French programme, and what should you provide?

Children obviously have much to gain from learning a second language at a young age. But where do you start planning a French programme, and what should you provide?

Settings should embed their French programme within their planning and provide activities daily or several times a week as the occasion arises.

The programme should also be planned around a few key aims:

* To create a positive feeling that 'French is fun' and 'I can speak some French'

* To help children begin to communicate in French and understand some culture

* To build up positive attitudes to French language and culture which will subsequently reflect on attitudes to all foreign languages and cultures throughout life.

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