About Young Voyagers Pre-K
Charlotte’s Mandarin Chinese Immersion Preschool, Located at East Voyager Academy
At Young Voyagers Pre-K, we offer the best combination of preschool benefits for pre-kindergarten children and their families.
We’re Academically Rigorous. Young Voyagers Pre-K enthusiastically embraces the many benefits of bilingual learning from a formative age. Dual language immersion from as early as preschool, helps children strengthen problem-solving abilities, memory, and overall academic achievement. By learning subjects in both Chinese and English, our students build confidence, adaptability, and cultural awareness from an early age.
Our Chinese curriculum focuses on language, culture, and foundational academics. Through songs, repetition, images, rhymes, and interactive play, children acquire the language naturally, just as they do with their first language.
Our English language curriculum reinforces skills learned in Mandarin, while strengthening early literacy and communication. English lessons provide the building blocks for reading and writing, supporting bilingual comprehension.
We’re Affordable. Young Voyagers Pre-K emphatically believes that high quality preschools should be available to all families. Accordingly, we price our tuition very affordably and offer a variety of payment options. We understand the difficulty that many families face in the current preschool and child care environment and want to provide an outstanding solution that can benefit all children.
We’re Convenient. Young Voyagers Pre-K is located in the heart of Charlotte; in close proximity to Charlotte Douglas International Airport, major highways such as I-85, I-485, I-77, US 29 and US 74, as well as large employers of all types. Our flexible before- and after-school programs help accommodate busy families and commuters looking for great convenient nearby preschool options.
We even share our facility with East Voyager Academy, a tuition-free K-to-8 international learning charter school, featuring dual language immersion in Mandarin Chinese and English. Families with children covering a wide age range, can find one academic destination for all of their students for many years.
We’re Nurturing & Supportive. Young Voyagers Pre-K places an emphasis on the whole child. We balance the academics with socialization and emotional support. Our teachers are passionate about their students and work hard to appreciate each child’s unique personalities and specific interests and needs. Our Young Voyagers gain comfort and confidence in our positive, preschool environment.
Why Dual Language Learning?
Language immersion is a highly researched educational model in which part of a school’s curriculum is taught in a foreign language. Students in these programs achieve advanced levels of foreign language proficiency in addition to high overall academic performance.
Ample evidence confirms that people who learn another language develop cognitive advantages that improve their attention, self-control, and ability to deal with contradictory information. Even preschool children in their formative years gain significant, sustained benefits by learning in two languages.
Specifically, scientists have discovered that the study of Mandarin uses both temporal lobes of the brain, versus just the left lobe in English speakers. In the process, learning to write Chinese characters helps the brain to develop spatial memory and math skills. There is even evidence to suggest that bilingual brains stay healthier longer than non-bilingual brains!
Learning Mandarin isn’t just good for a person’s mind. It also has important societal and professional merit. Mandarin is spoken by one-fifth of the planet’s residents — over 1.2 billion people. China is the second-largest economy in the world and one of America’s biggest trading partners.
Children whose academic experiences incorporate an international and cultural focus are well-equipped to succeed professionally, especially in a modern, rapidly evolving world. Our Young Voyagers benefit greatly by experiencing these qualities at a young age.