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Homeschool Foreign Language: Yay or Nay?

  If electives tend to take a back seat in your homeschool—I get it. It happens to me, too. Getting the core subjects in is enough of a balancing act to give me enough credits on my resume to successfully apply to join the circus. Each year is the same routine. I'll have the perfect foreign language curriculum picked out and ready to implement, only to find it hard, time-consuming, or labor-intensive. The good news is, last year was different. I found a curriculum that worked for one child and a method that worked for another. Curious as to what these are? Well, I'll begin with what did not work over the years and then share what did, so you can take my thoughts into consideration when choosing how to approach foreign language curriculum in your homeschool. NAY Rosetta Stone As an ESL tutor, I understand the concept of using pictures to help with foreign language learning, but it simply does not work in the format that they use—at least not in our house. If the basic language ...

Middlebury Interactive Languages {Review}

     Recently, my third grader has been able to work on his Spanish skills using the  Middlebury Interactive Languages  program available for children in grades K-12. This program offers courses in several different languages including Spanish, French, Chinese and German.We chose to work with the  Spanish Courses  geared towards students in grades 3-5 ($119.00). Below is a list of the courses they currently offer and for which grades. We live in an area with an extremely large Spanish speaking population, so it only makes sense to have my children learn the language, at least a little! I figure, this is the age where they can pick up languages easier so I want to be sure to take full advantage of this opportunity! My son took one semester of Spanish in first grade at a private school but we haven't really pursued it much more since then!  This program took what he knew to an entirely different level! For example, he know...