Hippo Family Club and Its Activities
NOTE on LEXInstitute- Hippo Family Club and its Activities INTRODUCTION to LEX Institute- HIPPO Family Club The Hippo Family Club(ヒッポファミリークラブ?) is a brainchild of an organization known as the Institute for Language Experience, Experiment & Exchange,also known as LEX. It was created in 1981 by YoSakakibara, who has been researching language acquisition for over 30 years, working with researchers at Harvard and MIT, and then moving his research institute to Tokyo. The goal is to research languages and humans from the point of view of natural science through 1) Natural acquisition of languages and 2) International exchange activities. The Hippo Family Club is a transnational network of community-based language clubs in which both children and adults engage in various activities with the end of acquiring multiple languages simultaneously. YoSakakibara has established similar organizations in the U.S., Mexico, and South Korea. In the United States, the organization is known as LEX America and the language clubs as LEX Language Project. The LEX Institute organizes “HIPPO Family Club” where families and individuals of all ages enjoy immersion-style multilingual language learning activities. HIPPO Family Club members create an environment where they enjoy the sounds of many languages through HIPPO original multilingual CDs. An essential element of this multilingual environment is incorporating members of all ages as well as members from around the world. Multilingualism is Possible Because it is Natural. For over 30 years, LEX / Hippo Family Club members have enjoyed sharing languages from all around the world. Both adults and children can learn to speak any number of languages when they use the same process they used to acquire their own native languages.*Hippo Family Club’s original materials include Arabic, Cantonese, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Taiwanese, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese.
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