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EmilyC
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Posted: May 21 2010 at 8:42am | IP Logged Quote EmilyC
I really want to start dd on a foreign language this year. We dabbled in Latin a few years ago and she absolutely hated it, so I won't force her to do that again, and she knows a bit of spanish from watching Dora the Explorer.

Anyhow, I asked her what language she was interested in and she chose Chinese. I'm not surprised, because she loves China and plans to go there someday.   But, I'm not sure what program we should look at. I don't know that we can afford something like Rosetta Stone right now.

What is a good program for learning to speak Chinese?

Thanks!

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Hi Emily,

Check out the Speak Mandarin Chinese For Beginners The Michel Thomas Program. We have their Italian, French, Spanish and Russian programs and LOVE them!   

Good luck and God Bless.

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Hi Emily, I don't know if you are still researching this, but we used Mandarin Immersion tapes from our library, a pocket Mandarin Chinese dictionary, and Reading and Writing Chinese by McNaughton. I didn't count it for school credit; this was purely for fun on our part. I have to say I enjoyed the study as much as the kids.
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