Finland leads the world in education

Mr. Rajakangas, Consul General from Finland, introduced his deputy, Ms Korhonen, to me at lunch at the Jockey Club. We are planning to launch a Finnish language course shortly at Le Beaumont Language Centre, and to introduce the cutting-edge Gifted Babies program to Finnish parents with young babies to learn Putonghua and Japanese.

The Gifted Babies program incorporates the latest research findings in neurology studies and in early language acquisition. Babies in their first 15 months are only interested in sounds and rhythms, not in words or sentences. Exposure to more languages in infancy enhances the voice recognition system for life. And when they need to learn the language in higer studies or in business, they will be able to pick up the foreign language so much better and easier.

Finland is a great country, so innovative, with so much emphasis on education, on the value of people and on technology. Finland leads the world in education. There is so much for us to learn.