Languages

[FlamingoBingo]

My autonomously educated 6.5yo has been going to a French club for 4-7yo for a
while, which seems to have stopped, and a Spanish club for a similar age-group,
which has also stopped for the teacher to have a baby! My DD1 has really,
really enjoyed the languages and she and I are concerned that she'll lose what
she's learned while she waits for them to restart, if, indeed, they do!

Can anyone suggest a good cd-rom/dvd/home learning course that she's likely to
enjoy? She enjoys playing on education city, but that's less teaching and more
consolidation, I find, on the languages bit. I've looked at Muzzy but it's very
expensive and I wouldn't want to invest without some good recommendations for
it. I also don't really know what level to start at.

[Tinuviel]

Ecole Alouette Elementary Book for French and Spanish and Book 1 for French are fine but very basic.

Galore Park do good books but are very rigorous and grammatically based. You would also need to know some French/Spanish yourself!! They would probably be a bit demanding for a 6.5 year old but might be good later.

Have heard good reports about Rosetta Stone but it's quite expensive!

[LauraIngallsWilder]

Hi flamingo - I speak quite a bit of a language but am not fluent. Ds is and I am keen to maintain that!

Im thinking about getting Rosettastone - have a search for Fillyjonk on MN (or she may notice your thread anyway) she posted some very informative stuff about rosetta (the company itself) a while ago and has used some of their stuff

HTH

[ceeb]

Have you tried lcfclubs? It is the best website I've come across for language learning, and has both French and Spanish.

[anastaisia]

DD is doing this but not really in competition with the others - just for fun.

[anastaisia]

Sorry, pressed send by accident meant to say:

The competition is Italian, but eurotalk do other language discs and if the competition one is similar then DD(just 5) has managed most of the sections ok. I have to read some of the common phrases (in english) to her but the colours/items/body parts etc are all really child friendly.