Moseley couple Jodi Tommerdahl and Andrew Verity run the Wednesday morning sessions at the Kitchen Garden Café in York Road.

Andrew grew up in Paris because of his father's job and has been bi-lingual since birth. His wife Jodi, a lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Birmingham, also lived in France for several years.

They set up the toddler language sessions in February and they have been so successful that they will be running extra classes from next month and are looking at starting Saturday morning lessons for older kids too.

"The group is designed both for children with no experience of the French language as well as those who already speak it," explains Andrew. "For 50 minutes on Wednesday mornings, the children are completely immersed in French through games, stories, puppet shows and music. Even the children who aren't speaking yet started showing that they understood the content of the class within just a few weeks."

This looks very interesting and I'm going to try and get in contact with them. I heard about this through Lindsey our English "French Teacher" at Solihull College. Well done our links are forever growing....

Did you know that Solihull and Cholet will have been twinned for 10 years next year!! I'm sure there'll be some sort of celebration on the cards. Get your suitcases ready!!!

Juliet