Our Classes

Sponge offers award-winning Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin & Cantonese), French, Japanese, and German classes for kids in the greater Seattle area and the Eastside. Bring your newborn or toddlers and learn along with them. Drop off your older child to learn a language while having fun. Or bring our program to your child’s elementary school, so they can discover the world there.

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Awards and Certification

We feel like we win awards every day when we hear a child say Ni hao or blow a beso to their teacher. We’re also grateful for the support and recognition of the press and the families in our community.

We have won Red Tricycle’s Totally Awesome Award for Best Language Classes 2013, 2012, and 2011. We have also won ParentMap’s 2017 Golden Teddy for Passport Ready Language or Art Class, the 2014 Golden Teddy for Best After-School and Enrichment Classes and the 2012 Golden Teddy for Best Infant and Toddler Classes. Seattle Metropolitan Magazine gave us their Critic’s Pick for Best Foreign Language Classes and Seattle Weekly awarded us Best Kiddie Language School.

Sponge is a certified Minority and Woman Owned Business Enterprise in the State of Washington.

Programs

All of our classes are designed to be engaging and effective. We think the best way to learn a language is to be immersed in it and having fun. That fun is age dependent—meaning peek-a-boo for the infants and drama and art for the big kids.

  • Child & Caregiver Classes: Newborn to 4 Years

    From the time they’re born, babies are learning language–naturally! The youngest brains are primed to learn, and our native-speaking teachers immerse them in their language and culture. * The great news for pa...

  • Just Kids: 3-5 Years

    At this stage, kids are mastering their native language–irregular rules and all. They are picking up new vocabulary and ways to express themselves, and they naturally use these skills with their second language, too. ...

  • Elementary School: K-5th Grades

    "Learning a language is not just learning grammar and vocabulary…It is learning how to function in another culture, how to know a new community from the inside out." (MLA, 2003) Our Sponge elementary program has...

  • Language program seems very suitable for a toddler. (We like) the languages offered, the teachers, classroom setting, and the curriculum.

    ~ C. F.

  • We love the teachers and the structure of Sponge curriculum. My daughter also loves the class!

    ~ A. N.

  • Great focus on the language for young ones! The immersion approach is very important to us. It is lots of fun for both kids and parents. The kids really absorb the material and the parents learn too!

    ~ J. N.

News

All the latest from Sponge

  • Slice of Summer

    Registration is now open for our Summer 2019 session! Classes run from July 1 to August 25, 2019. We have a full schedule with weekday and weekend options in our Seattle, Kirkland, and Issaquah locat...

  • Let’s Go for the Gold!

    Every year ParentMap presents their annual Golden Teddy Awards, highlighting the best Puget Sound resources for parents. We hope you'll spread the love by nominating Sponge in the following categories...

  • A Golden Opportunity

    Research shows that language learning increases cognitive ability for senior learners. Aside from the social benefits of exploring a different culture and learning new ways to communicate, learning a ...