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April 19, 2016 By Jennifer Lambert 11 Comments

I’ve always felt learning a foreign language is important.

My high school offerings were only Spanish and French. My parents encouraged me to take Spanish since they thought it would be more useful. I took three years, but in college, I maxed out the program and also took the maximum courses offered in French and German. I really wish I had become a linguist but I had few role models and no one I knew was into that.

While I am not fluent, I can get by with childish conversations in French, German, and Spanish. I can read it ok, so that’s good when we travel. I can break down and pronounce Italian.

It’s totally true that if you learn one language, it’s easier to learn others.

I don’t want to pay hundreds of dollars on a language program.

We’ve reviewed Mango, but it’s so expensive for a large family. I’ve seen Transparent Language and Rosetta Stone at the library.

Most colleges require 2 credits of the same foreign language. I want my kids to be more than prepared.

How do I teach foreign language in our homeschool?

Homeschool Foreign Language

Latin

Since we follow a classical education model, we focus on Latin in the beginning.

We being with Prima Latina at about age 8.

Then we follow the books as far as we can:

We study Latina Christiana I and II for upper elementary or middle school.

Then First Form Latin I-IV (which is mostly Henle in workbooks) in high school. There is some argument among homeschoolers about whether to count each Form as 1 high school credit.

The girls love it. It’s easy. We watch the DVDs and complete the workbooks and sing songs and recite prayers. I know it’s working because when we travel, the girls totally read the Latin inscriptions!

Greek

I’m so happy there’s a Greek program that begins with the Alphabet and continues with Elementary Greek I, II, and III.

Easy and I use the teacher’s guide for snags and to make sure since I’m unfamiliar with Greek. When we traveled to Greece, it was fun to pick apart the letters and words. While ancient Greek is a bit different, the sounds and alphabet haven’t changed!

French

I’m not super thrilled with First Start French. The lessons are not comprehensive enough for high school credit. The girls enjoy the workbooks. The CD isn’t the greatest, so I read the dialogue exercises aloud. The girls review with apps and love to practice speaking French anytime we go over the border! We’ve heard great things about William Linney’s Getting Started with French and may look into that. He also has Spanish and Latin.

German

We live in Germany, so it’s important that we can communicate with our neighbors. I bought some kids workbooks and we worked through those for vocabulary.

We worked through German for Children and now we’re on German DeMYSTiFieD.

More

  • The kids use the Duolingo app for review.
  • Great resources from Mason’s living languages.
  • These are some free online college courses we’re looking into.
  • BBC Languages offers free online courses.
  • Easy Peasy Spanish and French (scroll down)
  • Georgia Virtual School has courses in Latin, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, or German. I haven’t reviewed these, but they look like little lessons and quizzes, similar to Mango.

We love these apps for when we travel:

  • Google Translate and Word Lens
  • Linguee
  • iTranslate
  • Country or Language specific apps come in handy with basic words and phrases but often have in-app purchases for more info.

How do you teach foreign languages to your students?


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  1. Ashley says

    April 25, 2016 at 7:52 pm

    This is a great resource. My 7 year has shown interest in learning French, and while I barely speak English as my husband likes to tell me (LOL), we’re going to start french in the coming school year.

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  2. Mother of 3 says

    April 26, 2016 at 10:51 pm

    Wow! That is an amazing list of languages! I am totally intimidated by teaching my kids a foreign language. I’m trying to steer them towards French because that is the language I chose when I was in school and I learned enough to get by for one week in France but even that was so many, many years ago.

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  3. Gwen says

    April 26, 2016 at 9:06 pm

    This was interesting for me, as a friend has just passed on her Latina Christiana books to us. We use Duolingo for French and German practice, along with some British curricula, and you tube videos. The BBC Primary French site is also good for younger children. Thanks for sharing this :-)

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  4. Mari-Anna Stalnacke says

    April 27, 2016 at 2:13 pm

    I think learning different languages is so important. Playfulness, songs and dinner discussions help children learn and use different languages. Thanks for this post. Blessings to all of you!

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  5. Michele Morin says

    April 28, 2016 at 1:25 pm

    What a rich experience you are giving to your children! We have used Rosetta Stone for French — not sure my kids are taking it very seriously, but I love hearing them speak!

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  6. Ali says

    April 28, 2016 at 5:27 pm

    These are great resources. I’m homeschool my kids so these will definitely come in handy. Thank you.

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  7. Karren says

    April 29, 2016 at 4:29 pm

    Hi Jennifer, thank you for stopping by to share your post, it is a great read for parents that homeschool and I have share it out on Twitter and Pinterest.

    I have also discovered I was not yet following on FB, so now I am and also on Pinterest!! Yahoo!!

    I hope you have a great week and you will join us again next week to share your blog!
    Karren

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  8. Lori says

    April 30, 2016 at 12:16 am

    My son’s learning German. We’ve been using the GA Virtual School and Duolingo. Thanks for sharing with Thankful Thursdays.

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  9. Hil says

    April 30, 2016 at 7:08 pm

    I always found watching tv in a certain language helped cement the learning too :)

    Thanks for sharing at #everythingkids

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  10. Sandy Sandmeyer says

    May 3, 2016 at 2:48 am

    These are really good resources for learning languages for both homeschoolers and those who are seeking knowledge of another language for pleasure. Thanks for sharing your post at the Over the Moon Link Party.

    Reply

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