About your teacher:

Erin Douglas

Erin was introduced to foreign languages and culture at an early age. Her family hosted an exchange student from Denmark when she was young and she took Spanish classes before foreign languages were introduced at school. In high school she became interested in French when her family hosted an exchange student from Belgium. After graduation she traveled to Tournai, Belgium with the Rotary Student Exchange Program where she lived with French speaking host families, attended a Belgian high school and traveled much of Europe. Spending a year in Belgium, living with native French speakers, gave her basic French language skills.
Erin attended the University of Minnesota in Moorhead, where she took French classes from Concordia College and participate in the Concordia Language Villages on the weekends. Her junior year she attended Université de Sherbrooke in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. While her declared major was Mass Communications and Advertising, she was always attentive and passionate about French as a way to integrate cultural diversity into her education.
Erin has been living in Billings since 2003. She and her husband would like to teach their children to speak French and develop a love of foreign culture. Music Lingua is a way for Erin to introduce her children and other children in her community to the French language. She hopes to instill a love and appreciation of foreign languages, foreign travel and cultural diversity in the children and families she comes into contact with through Music Lingua.