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Foreign Language Curriculum
Foreign language is great for expanding young minds. It's also becoming essential in some parts to learn other languages, whether traveling abroad or in a subculture of America. So find a way to squeeze it into your already busy schedule.Legend
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DuoLingo is a free, online foreign language system that uses activities and questions to help you learn a new language. It also tracks your fluency and progression so you can see how fluent you are becoming and how much you practice. Languages include Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Irish, Danish, swedish, Esperanto, Turkish, Norwegian, or Ukrainian. Also available as an app.
Grade:
4+
Style:
Online Interactive
Hello-world teaches 20 world foreign languages to kids, spoken by native speakers. It uses immersion, games and activities to teach kids a new language.
Grade:
Style:
Online Interactive
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The Learnables uses the comprehension or immersion approach to learning a second language. It teaches students to listen, understand, and most importantly to think in the foreign language.
Ages:
7+
Style:
Online Interactive
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Little Pim is an entertainment immersion method that makes it fun and easy for younger kids to learn a new language.
Ages:
0-6
Style:
Videos, Flashcards, Books, & CD
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Over 60 languages with an interactive, intuitive interface. Includes interesting cultural notes to give more knowledge of the culture associated with the language. It may be free if your library subscribes to Mango.
Grade:
3rd-12th
Style:
Online Interactive
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Muzzy introduces your child to hundreds of vocabulary words and phrases across many themes. The online version features all new animations, games, and activities.
Ages:
1-12
Style:
DVD & Online Interactive
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Rosetta Stone
Rosetta Stone offers many languages to learn with it's software. It uses a completely immersive environment with no translation or memorization. Images, native speakers, and written words help guide your child through the program. Parents can monitor the progress of students as they progress through the language.
Grade:
K-12th
Style:
Software
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Want to learn how to do ASL? With ASLdeafined, it's easy. Subscribe to their site today to get instant access to over 300 lessons, a video dictionary of over 15,000 words, and other tools and resources to boost your learning. You can track your progress with the progress chart and see how far you've come. With ASLdeafined, learning a new language has never been easier.
Grade:
All Ages
Style:
Online Lessons
American Sign Language University is a resource site for ASL students and teachers. Dr. Bill leads a student in ASL instruction through video learning in a light-hearted, sometimes humorous way.
Grade:
All Ages
Style:
Online Lessons
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Learn ASL through child-friendly, fun videos presented by Rachel Coleman. Using music, movement, and a great storyline kids learn how to sign in no time.
Ages:
0-8
Style:
DVD & Online Dictionary
Signing Exact English is similar to ASL, but while ASL has its own syntax, grammar and idioms, it is different from SEE. SEE is a sign system modeled after the English language. In SEE, the sentence structure, idioms, verb endings, etc. are taken from English. In essence, SEE is a visual form of English.
Grade:
All Ages
Style:
Online Dictionary
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Start learning ASL today with the expertise and talent of the stars of public television's Signing Time, Rachel and Leah Coleman. Sign It ASL is designed to teach older children, teenagers, and adults in-depoth ASL. It includes lessons on vocabulary, grammar, fingerspelling, on-manual markers, and Deaf culture.
Grade:
All Ages
Style:
Online Lessons
Learn ASL, culture, history, and careers at Start ASL. Grading is automatic and you can go at your own pace while the site tracks your progres. Tutoring, paid and free courses are all available.
Grade:
All Ages
Style:
Online Lessons
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Learn Chinese through stories that speak to all ages of kids.
Grade:
PreK-Adult
Style:
Textbook, Workbook, Audio, & Online
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The Easy French is fun to learn and easy to teach with funny stories and interesting activities. Uses French Scripture, songs, games and coloring pages.
Grade:
K-12th
Style:
Textbook & CD
A Greek Alphabetarion is a primer for teaching how to read, write & pronounce ancient and Biblical Greek. The alphabet is taught in alphabetical order, letter by letter, using a rhythmic cadence to aid the student's memorization. Designed to be used with A Greek Hupogrammon.
Ages:
8+
Style:
Textbook & CD
A Greek Hupogrammon is a beginner's copybook for the Greek alphabet with pronunciations. Designed to be used with A Greek Alphabetarion.
Ages:
8+
Style:
Workbook
Learn the basics of Biblical Greek with online lessons or through the book.
Grade:
High School
Style:
Online Lessons & Book
This was a fun book to go through with the kids. Understanding the Greek alphabet is the key to decoding clues and recovering the stolen Urn of Achilles. Learn all the Greek letters along with the phonetic pronunciations. Practice writing the letters too.
Ages:
9-12
Style:
Book
Greek for Children introduces children to the grammar of Greek. Weekly worksheets and quizzes help students practice and retain vocabulary and grammar concepts.
Grade:
4+
Style:
Textbook, DVD & CD
Hey, Andrew! teaches students everything from learning the alphabet to learning moods, irregular adjectives, translating and writing sentences, and parsing and translating II John and III John. These books take it slow through the alphabet and into word meanings. My kids have been working through them for years and learning very well.
Ages:
8+
Style:
Workbook
Homeschool Greek is a self-teaching program for older children. Vocabulary drill cards help cement language knowledge. Audio pronunciation files are available. This program does not teach the Greek alphabet or phonetic system. Those are taught in A Greek Alphabetarion.
Ages:
8+
Style:
Textbook, DVD & CD
The Song School Greek Program uses a fun, interactive audio cd to guide you along learning Biblical Greek. Write, read, and sing along with the cd.
Ages:
K+
Style:
Workbook & Audio
Biblical Hebrew teaches how to read and write Biblical Hebrew with a gentle introduction to vocabulary and grammar. Use as the foundation of high school foreign language credits.
Ages:
9+
Style:
Textbook & CD
Learn to Read Hebrew in 6 Weeks with fun memory tricks that make it super simple to remember the sounds of the letters. The book is divided into 12 simple lessons. Two a week for 6 weeks. At the end of six weeks you will be able to read from the original Hebrew Bible, Psalms or the Siddur and will have taken the first step towards learning the Hebrew language.
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Style:
Book
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Memoria Press publishes several kinds of Latin curriculum for students - Latina Christiana, Prima Latina, and others.
Grade:
2+
Style:
Textbook, Workbook & CD
Song School Latin uses a fun, interactive audio cd to guide you along learning Latin. Write, read, and sing along with the cd.
Grade:
K+
Style:
Workbook & CD
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BookLingual teaches children language through picture books. The ebooks are read on your computer, tablet or phone in both English and Spanish. You can read to them or once they start to understand, they can read it by themselves.
Ages:
0-10
Style:
eBooks, Books, Games & CD
Breaking the Spanish Barrier is a rigorous high school level Spanish program. It is a course that teaches both grammar and practical conversation.
Grade:
7th-12th
Style:
Workbook & CD
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Calico Spanish is an engaging curriculum designed for children ages 4+. The program is video-based and designed for parents who don't speak Spanish to be able to teach it to their kids at home. All of their extensive teaching resources are available through our Online Access site, so it's cost effective and flexible to meet the needs of many different types of homeschool families.
Grade:
PreK+
Style:
Online Videos & Workbooks
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The Easy Spanish focuses on the phonetics learning of Spanish. It is fun to learn and easy to teach with funny stories and interesting activities. Uses Spanish Scripture, songs, games and coloring pages.
Grade:
K-9th
Style:
Texbook & CD
Foreign Language for Kids by Kids uses videos of kids in real life scenarios to teach beginning Spanish. Humorous storylines help the children to relate and follow. The practical language usage helps to speak and understand Spanish in a short time.
Ages:
3-14
Style:
Online Lessons, DVD, Workbook, & Games
Homeschool Spanish Academy is all online, using Skype to interact with native Latin American speakers to help students learn to speak Spanish. Lessons are already laid out and they take you through each during a 30 minute session. It's probably the best way to learn with a native speaker. More affordable than someone coming to your home, but more expensive than a workbook.
Grade:
K-12th
Style:
Interactive Online Lessons
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La Clase Divertida offers a multi-sensory approach to learning Spanish. You are learning the culture as you learn the language. High School Spanish is available online.
Grade:
PreK-12th
Style:
Online, Manual, Workbook, Activities, DVD, & CD
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Risas y Sonrisas was developed for beginning speakers at the elementary level. It takes a multi-sensory approach with games, singing, and playing. It is ideal for small groups of 2-4 students.
Grade:
K-5th
Style:
Lessons, Workbook, Games, & DVD
Salsa is a television show from the Georgia Public Broadcasting that teaches beginning Spanish to children at an elementary level. It combines humor with puppet characters that children fall in love with.
Grade:
PreK-3rd
Style:
Online TV Shows
Song School Spanish is patterened after the Song School Latin curriculum which features weekly lessons with songs/chants, vocabulary, illustrations, handwriting practice, stories, games, and activities.
Grade:
1st-3rd
Style:
Workbook & CD
Spanish for Children teaches upper-elementary students using the pedagogy and structure of the Latin for Children series combined with immersion-style dialogues and vocabulary. The series emphasizes grammar and the parts of speech as tools for speaking and understanding Spanish.
Grade:
3rd-8th
Style:
Workbook & CD
Spanish for You is designed for homeschoolers that teaches your children Spanish in a fun way. There are themed packages that come in school-year-long packages. We did this one for 3rd and 4th grade and really learned a lot from it. The kids built their own flash cards and really started to speak Spanish.
Grade:
3rd-8th
Style:
Workbook
Study Spanish is available online for free for beginner through advanced studies. Go through the lessons and listen to Spanish being spoken.
Grade:
Style:
Gameschooling
Gameschooling is when board and card games are included in the homeschool experience to help enrich learning in a particular subject. Rather than just playing games for fun, gameschooling emphasizes the educational aspect of playing games. Since children tend to learn best while being engaged and having fun, gameschooling is seen as a great way to solidify material that may not be understood as readily if just reading it from a textbook.
Ago is a conversational card game in French. Learn and practice simple French questions, phrases and vocabulary through conversation. The 54 card deck features 36 simple and useful question cards and 18 action cards. Players spend equal time asking and answering the target questions in random order, and learn the content naturally as they play.
Number of Players:
3-5
Ages:
6+
Ago is a conversational card game in German. Learn and practice simple German questions, phrases and vocabulary through conversation. The 54 card deck features 36 simple and useful question cards and 18 action cards. Players spend equal time asking and answering the target questions in random order, and learn the content naturally as they play.
Number of Players:
3-5
Ages:
7+
Learn ASL while playing Scrabble with these Iconoglyphs. Replace your letter tiles with these ASL tiles to spell words. The set contain 100 wood tiles that have hand signs and point values.Set includes two blank "wild card" tiles for playing.
Number of Players:
2-4
Ages:
8+
Jgo is a conversational card game in Japanese. Learn and practice simple Japanese questions, phrases and vocabulary through conversation. The 54 card deck features 36 simple and useful question cards and 18 action cards. Players spend equal time asking and answering the target questions in random order, and learn the content naturally as they play.
Number of Players:
3-5
Ages:
7+
Race around the board while you learn Spanish. Score points by making sentences in Spanish and learning words as quickly as possible. Players discover the meanings of words as they play so it never feels like studying or work, but is in fact more effective.
Number of Players:
2-4
Ages:
6+
Learn French as you play. Race around the board game learning lots of words and building sentences in French along the way. Discover the meanings of words as you play so it never feels like studying.
Number of Players:
1-4
Ages:
7+
Learn Spanish as you play and build sentences with ease. There are expressions, verbs, nouns, and adjectives to join together as you build sentences. Great for beginners to intermediate learners.
Number of Players:
1-4
Ages:
6+
Lil' Loteria is a fun twist on a traditional classic that turns the game of bingo into a bilingual learning game. Kids learn memory and matching skills plus vocabulary words in English and Spanish. Once the game board is filled with the matching cards, they shout LOTERIA!
Number of Players:
2+
Ages:
3-12
Bananagram in French! Bananagrams is great for practicing spelling skills. It's played like a Scrabble crossword game, but without the board. It is perfect for traveling as it doesn't take much space.
Number of Players:
1-8
Ages:
7+
Bananagram in Spanish! Bananagrams is great for practicing spelling skills. It's played like a Scrabble crossword game, but without the board. It is perfect for traveling as it doesn't take much space.
Number of Players:
1-8
Ages:
7+
Designed for Preschool and beginners, Spanish Literacy Wiz helps kids with letter recognition, spelling, word building,and early vocabulary. By putting the cubes together to for a word, kids gain an important understanding of Spanish vocabulary.
Number of Players:
1
Ages:
PreK+
Spanish Scrabble is the classic game of crossword scoring and a great way to practice Spanish as a second language. Learn vocabulary and spelling skills as you score on special square for double or triple points.
Number of Players:
2-4
Ages:
8+
