The Language Workshop for Children’s Director/Founder François Thibaut invented the enriched play method to teach Chinese, French, Italian, and Spanish to kids. Since 1973 his internationally-recognized LWFC has offered stimulating language lessons for babies, toddlers and elementary grades. Original music, vocabulary-building songs, language immersion, festive visual aids, action games and native-fluent language teachers are why the LWFC is the country’s leader in children’s language educational play. As Thibaut says, “Children remember the words that make them happy”.

To the untrained eye LWFC's Languages for Tots^® and Languages for Children classes resemble simple playgroups. The difference is its Thibaut Technique®, a whole language approach employing both sides of the brain.  The left brain governs grammar, vocabulary and meaning while the right processes emotion and voice melody.  Songs reinforce grammatical patterns, visual aids symbolize vocabulary, and games carry emotion; vital factors when teaching children to speak another language.

The LWFC’s native speaker teachers are carefully trained to use the respected Thibaut Technique®.  And language-rich songs are especially written for the LWFC, recorded by native speakers, and reinforce grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation in a happy Thibaut Technique® way.  Every session, students receive a professionally produced, durable and collectable Songs & More CD/Workbook Set (plus an LWFC Storybook for older students) to practice what they're learning at home.  Since the LWFC produces the multi-award winning Professor Toto Language Education Series, you know you are getting top quality materials.

Whether it's language immersion programs or camps, the subtle details of the LWFC’s celebrated Thibaut Technique® and the quality of their colorful and professional take-home materials is what makes the difference.

About Accents on Fun:

Founded in 2009 by Elizabeth and Steve DeBiasi, Accents on Fun is a licensee of The Language Workshop for Children® created exclusively to help young children in our community develop the comfort to understand and the confidence to speak a foreign language.  Elizabeth and Steve have two young children and would like to raise them to be bilingual during this crucial language acquisition period of their lives.  

Elizabeth, who studied in Spain while in college, majored in Spanish and Economics at the University of Virginia and earned a Master of Business Administration from Wake Forest University.  

Steve, who studied German in Salzburg, Austria while in college, majored in Marketing and Communication at Babson College prior to completing a Master of Health Administration from the Medical College of Virginia.

Both Elizabeth and Steve have developed an appreciation for languages through extensive travel in Europe, Asia and parts of South America and Africa and have served as a host family for travelers.  We firmly believe that knowing a second or third language will open many doors to a child's future.

Accents on Fun teachers with native fluency are certified in the Thibaut Technique® to teach babies, toddlers, and children how to understand and speak French or Spanish.  Elizabeth and Steve do not serve as the teachers.

Classes are offered at The Children's Museum of Wilmington at 116 Orange Street in downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.  The classrooms, specially designed for children, are brightly lit and spacious with areas for arts and crafts, dance, rest and free play.  Classes for children in kindergarten through 5th grade are offered at New Horizons Elementary School on College Road.