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Kathryn Forum All-Star
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We're looking at what to use for a foreign language. DD is interested in French, Latin or possibly sign language. Any suggestions, ideas, experience?
Thanks,
Kathryn
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Duolingo. It's fantastic and FREE!
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We like Learnables for German and Visual Latin for Latin. We also like Getting Started With Latin as a good intro.
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I just wanted to suggest that you check whether your library has a subscription to Mango. Many libraries do, and it is a program (in many ways similar to Rosetta Stone). When libraries subscribe, it is then free for their patrons to use over the internet.
We've been using Mango for my kids to learn Korean. It's been a lot of fun, although a lot of work!
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My middle-schoolers are doing Visual Latin, and we like it a lot.
You might also check out Homeschool College USA for foreign-language resources. My older son did about a year and a half of a free online German program called Deutsche Interaktiv, which was great -- he was able to transition easily into an intermediate-level outside class in the second semester of his second year of DI. All their resources are geared toward helping people pass CLEP tests, and what I've found there has been pretty high-quality.
We have loved DuoLingo in the past, but I hesitate to recommend it -- I've heard from several sources, in months past, that you can run across sample sentences inappropriate for a family audience, shall we say. When I read about this issue on the DuoLingo forums, their web staff's attitude seemed to be, "Well, this is a site for adults and people without religious hangups." Hm, well. Bye, then.
It's been some time since I've been back there, so I don't know how things stand now. And I did not see much of this in my own experience, though I did once, in my own exercises, get a sentence that said, "He wants to marry him." Hm, again.
It is free, though, and really really well done for a free web thing.
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SallyT wrote:
When I read about this issue on the DuoLingo forums, their web staff's attitude seemed to be, "Well, this is a site for adults and people without religious hangups." Hm, well. Bye, then.
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Now THAT's some customer service!
We do have a library that offers Mango but I'm not sure it would have any accountability for "credit". I can buy it and it's not too expensive but that seems to be the way we're leaning right now.
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Yes, they were surprisingly jerky. I think this was in response to a complaint from a high school class that was using Duolingo. Their basic attitude was, "If you can't take the heat, you shouldn't have been in the kitchen anyway." I guess they didn't want to have to adapt for a younger audience, but I'm sure the high-school teacher, student, and parents would have liked to know this on the front end.
As would all of us. (and as if adults couldn't learn a language without practicing conversations . . . well, that it wouldn't occur to me to have with strangers in a foreign land . . . )
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[QUOTE=SallyT] My middle-schoolers are doing Visual Latin, and we like it a lot.
You might also check out Homeschool College USA for foreign-language resources. My older son did about a year and a half of a free online German program called Deutsche Interaktiv, which was great -- he was able to transition easily into an intermediate-level outside class in the second semester of his second year of DI. All their resources are geared toward helping people pass CLEP tests, and what I've found there has been pretty high-quality.
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What a neat site! Thanks!
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Can also check out itunes u app -they have a large selection of free language programs. I listened in on one on Ancient Greek-it was basically a college class that was video-ed, but it was thorough and pretty good. They also included all the info on texts you would need and so on. And yes, all free:-)
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