Name: CHEC Rocky Mountain Homeschool Conference
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March 25, 2011 at 9:54 pm
my3boys
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My 12yo ds is looking to learn some Spanish. He’s interested, for now, in a dictionary to look up words kind of for fun and to see if it seems to be a fit for him. Don’t know if that’s the right way to go about this but he’s interested and I’d like to get a good one, but have no experience looking for one. Any suggestions??
Currently he is in an ASL class at co-op, but feels that Spanish may be more to his liking (although he has picked up the ASL fairly well). He does have family that speak Spanish fluently and I could ask them for help in conversation, etc., but a dictionary is what he’s after right now.
TIA for any suggestions.
March 26, 2011 at 3:37 am
art
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My son who is almost 18 and has become fluent in Spanish uses Webster’s New Spanish-English Dictionary. It says New Edition on the front. It also says “More than 80,000 words and phrases”. It’s yellow and blue and is at least 2 inches thick. It also says $5.95 on the back, so I don’t think we paid much. We got it at the bookstore. It was the best looking one there. Seems to be really useful.
Here’s the ISBN if you want it. (13 digit) 978-1-59027-083-7
Hope that helps
March 26, 2011 at 5:35 am
my3boys
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Thank you. I will checking this out tomorrow.
How did your son learn Spanish, if you don’t mind me asking?? I think my son wants to learn starting in the fall or before and I have no plans yet how to teach him.
I appreciate your help. Blessings.
March 26, 2011 at 1:23 pm
art
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My son used Lifepac Spanish 1 and 2. He did it one his own, because I don’t remember much from high school–so long ago. We wanted him (and he wanted) to learn it a lot earlier, but we never could find a resource that fit. So after he did Lifepac the last 2 years of high school (he’s been done almost a year), a family from Mexico moved into out congregation at church. We became friends and she started coming over a couple times a month to speak Spanish with him. He would translate something like a paper he had written in English or something, and she would go over it with him. She also wanted our help with passing the TOFEL test so that she could get her nursing certificate in the US. The funny thing was that she hardly spoke English when she came here a few years ago.
Anyway, after not very long, she said she couldn’t teach him much more. So he took a test to test out of Spanish classes at our local Community College. So he tested out of every class they offer and they told him he would probably test out of more classes at the local 4 year college.
He understood a TON of Spanish, but having the native speaker was amazing. I also have to say that he studied (still studies) the Spanish scriptures along side the English ones and looks up every single word he doesn’t know and makes notes.
Best of luck!
March 26, 2011 at 4:57 pm
my3boys
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That is sooo awesome!
My son does have a 2 Spanish speaking family members that would help out and a few through our hs group. I took Spanish in school and can remember a little and would probably be of some help, but like you, that was many years ago. Now my husband can get by but is limited and I’m sure they would have fun learning together, hopefully:)
My dad and his family are fluent, but unfortunately I was not raised by him so he’s no help. He didn’t even help the kids he did raise to learn from him, either, but he would speak with you in Spanish if he’s around.
Thank you for your help, I feel much more prepared for him. We live in a community with many Spanish speaking people and we are half ourselves, so in that regard, he feels he should know Spanish. I really liked ASL and thought that that was the direction he really wanted to go, but that’s okay, I’m just glad he is interested and self-motivated:)

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