20 language classes for kids across all five boroughs of New York City. Immersion and classes for kids. Includes Japan Society Japanese for Teens & Family Festivals and Aozora Community Japanese Programs.
Teens can join term-long Japanese courses focused on speaking, listening and beginning kanji, along with manga drawing workshops, offered online through Japan Society's Language Center. Younger children and families visit in person for seasonal celebrations like New Year's, Children's Day and the 7-5-3 ceremony, with performances and crafts.
Baby Fingers' Sign & Song classes blend American Sign Language with songs and play, giving babies and toddlers a way to communicate before they can talk. Classes welcome both Deaf and hearing families.
Baby Fingers' Sign & Song classes blend American Sign Language with songs and play, giving babies and toddlers a way to communicate before they can talk. Classes welcome both Deaf and hearing families.
Baby Fingers' Sign & Song classes blend American Sign Language with songs and play, giving babies and toddlers a way to communicate before they can talk. Classes welcome both Deaf and hearing families.
Baby Fingers' Sign & Song classes blend American Sign Language with songs and play, giving babies and toddlers a way to communicate before they can talk. Classes welcome both Deaf and hearing families.
Baby Fingers' Sign & Song classes blend American Sign Language with songs and play, giving babies and toddlers a way to communicate before they can talk. Classes welcome both Deaf and hearing families.
Housed in a historic Grymes Hill mansion, this cultural center offers kids hands-on Italian cooking classes and beginner Italian language lessons. School, scout and camp groups can book programs with Italian games, music, dance and gardening.
This Brooklyn nonprofit offers Japanese immersion for young children, including a fully Japanese preschool and a Saturday pre-K class. School-age kids attend Aozora Academy one day a week for three hours of Japanese language and culture, and seasonal day camps run during school breaks.
Japanese-speaking children spend Saturdays studying Japanese language and school subjects following a curriculum modeled on schools in Japan. Younger students attend a morning session, while middle and high schoolers stay for a full day.
Caregiver-and-child classes that teach Spanish, French or Mandarin through live music, dance and puppets, led by bilingual musician-teachers. Classes run at partner sites around the city and online, and families get songs and vocabulary materials to keep practicing at home.
Kids spend camp days immersed in French, Spanish or Mandarin through hands-on, active play, with groups for beginners through bilingual children. The program also offers after-school sessions and holiday mini-camps.
Children learn French through an immersive, playful approach: little ones use stories, games and crafts, while older kids role-play everyday situations and teens build reading, writing and speaking skills. Classes serve both beginners and native French speakers.
A nonprofit studio where children learn Russian, either as heritage speakers or as a new language, through classes combined with arts and cultural activities. It runs an early childhood program, after-school classes and camps.
This Brooklyn branch teaches children Italian through playful lessons, role plays and small-group work so kids pick up the language naturally. Families can add Italian cooking classes and seasonal camps.
Kids learn Italian in tiny classes of no more than six through games, role-play and group activities that build speaking, listening, reading and writing. The school also runs Italian cooking classes and day camps for children.
A long-running language school (since 1973) teaching French, Spanish, Chinese and other languages to babies, preschoolers and elementary kids through songs, games and conversation. Classes are grouped by age and include parent-and-child options for the youngest.
West Side branch of the long-established children's language school, offering age-grouped French, Spanish, Chinese and other classes built around singing, play and conversation. Programs start with parent-and-baby groups and go through elementary grades.
Children learn Spanish through immersion classes that blend Montessori-style activities, music, performing arts and culture. Groups run from babies and toddlers up to older elementary kids.
Run by Chinatown's historic benevolent association, this long-established community school teaches Chinese language and culture to children, with students also performing at community celebrations like the Lunar New Year festivities.
This secular, progressive Sunday-style school teaches Yiddish language alongside Jewish cultural traditions and holiday celebrations, with a strong social-justice focus. Older kids can take part in a B'nei Mitzvah program built around family history research and activism projects.
LittleGotham lists 20 language classes for kids in New York City.
No. Every listing here charges a fee; prices are shown on each listing.
20 listings are indoors, such as Japan Society Japanese for Teens & Family Festivals, Aozora Community Japanese Programs, Baby Fingers Sign & Song – 14th Street Y.
Manhattan (14), Brooklyn (3), Queens (2).