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| © Laurie Block Spigel 2005-2008 |
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Learning another language, or finding out about another country or culture, is fascinating.
There are many methods of learning another language. Some concentrate more on conversational skills, others on translating written passages, others rely on memorizing verb conjugations, and the Rebus method uses picture-word sentences. The immersion method is considered the best and the fastest. It’s how we all learned our native tongues. If you can’t afford to move to France for a year, you can always go to summer camp there, or perhaps in French Canada.
For young children, I suggest getting simple children’s books in the language desired. Try books or characters that the child is already familiar with, like Sesame Street or Dr. Seuss. I also recommend getting a picture language dictionary.
Please send us your recommendations for other language materials, etc.
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General Language Links
Sites covering more than one language
- Before You Know It Free lessons in 64 languages.
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) offers a website of news in 33 different languages.
- The BBC Languages site. One parent's comment: "BBC has a variety of wonderful, free language-learning resources. The [crossword] puzzles are at the intermediate, presumably adult, level, but they have many resources accessible to kids."
- Discover Languages. A new website. Check frequently to see what has been added.
- fonetics.org. A free online pronunciation guides to seven varieties of the English language and nine other languages
- An article on Foreign Languages for Homeschoolers
- Foreign Language Lesson Plans from EDSITEment
- Free Language Lessons - listing of resources from About.com
- I Love Languages, a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources.
- Languages around the World - for kids, learn some words in another language.
- Languages Other than English (LOTE). Curriculum etc. from NYS Education Department.
- Learn a Foreign Language Online for Free
- Parents have recommended the Power-Glide Foreign Language courses (Spanish, French, Greman, Latin, and ESL). Power-Glide combines using rebus symbols in reading and writing with listening to tapes. Some people find this is an easier and faster way to learn.
- Quiz Tree - free online quizzes on several languages.
- Say Hello to the World If you wanted to say hello to everybody in the world, you would have to learn at least 2,796 languages and say hello to 5,720,000,000 people! This website makes a start.
- Word2Word. Links to free lessons in many, many languages.
- World News Network - the latest news in Afrikaans, Czech, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish.
Language Camps
- Concordia Language Camps offer an immersion experience in the USA, with high school and college credits for some courses. A student can spend an active, pleasant, summer month learning a year’s worth of high school language. They cover Arabic, Chinese, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian,
Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.
- A list of Language Camps for Youngsters.
- Another list of Language Camps from Camp Channel.
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