Does Springboard help to learn other languages?

People carrying bricks were hurled to the top of the pyramids using a huge springboard.

Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.

How do you do that? You know, we're supposed to have a planar foot, so we can't get off on the springboard.

So cool! Anyway, the demonstration project is a springboard for our own green roof installation business, bringing jobs and sustainable economic activity to the South Bronx.

It seems a bit strange to say One causes a Serendipity but to increase the possibility that it occurs let's start by making a Springboard for it.

So there's this skills gap, and this project Springboard to Languages that I've been involved in for the last few years aims to do that by teaching Esperanto to primary school kids.

But what this boy was doing in his head was connecting all the little bits of knowledge he had, that electricity or trucks didn't exist at the time, for example, with something from his P.E. class, a springboard.

So just like a diver stands on a springboard and then jumps off it to gain momentum, and then does this pirouette, this two and a half somersault through and then gracefully recovers, this robot is basically doing that.

It's a quick snippet from a report by the University of Manchester's School of Education who've been evaluating the Springboard to Languages project and in this part they're writing about School A, where kids at the time had about 18 months of Esperanto, and School B where they'd had French for two years, and they'd just started the Esperanto.