Name: Great Homeschool Conventions (Columbus)
Start: 2025-04-24T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-26T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Columbus, OH

This topic has 5 replies, 6 voices, and was last updated 14 years, 8 months ago by missingtheshire.

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June 9, 2010 at 11:34 pm
meagan
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For those of you who are teaching your children a foreign Language, how many days per week do you put it on your schedule?

We’re using Rosetta Stone for German this year. This is mainly for our 9th grader, but my husband and I are going to use it as well. I’m also planning on doing some German with our two younger students, but I haven’t decided on what I’m doing with them yet.
June 9, 2010 at 11:52 pm
suzukimom
Participant
Suggested resource for your younger kids…
http://www.knowitall.org/instantreplay/content/LanguageIndex.cfm?offset=0
(Pick First Steps Auf Deutsch) – this is a free program for Elem aged students that is pretty good at least for a start. (They also have Spanish and French)
We are doing German everyday with my 6yo, and the 4yo always runs to watch – and the 2yo, who barely speaks English (lol) gets excited and oftn watches too, sometimes repeating the German words…

June 10, 2010 at 1:25 am
Bookworm
Participant
Every day works best for us. It is one of those subjects that if we really want to retain & gain fluency, we need to work daily. Have tried just doing two or three days a week, have always had to go back to every day. Which gets hairy when you are doing 3 languages, but it’s best.
June 11, 2010 at 1:04 am
Amy
Member
Everyday is best. For Greek this year I am going to try doing 3 days with new lessons + review, and 2 days with just review (via Anki). We will do Spanish and Latin daily.
HTH!
Amy
June 11, 2010 at 1:49 am
Sara B.
Participant
We also do 5 days a week. Right now I give them a new word every week. Then we practice it every day, plus review the other words. We are doing just Spanish. But I throw some German out there in every day talking, too. 😉
June 11, 2010 at 1:49 am
missingtheshire
Member
We are doing German and do it everyday, it is necessary I think for retention and to move along well with the language. The girls will have 3 years of German and they are now pretty advanced. I help teach it because I am fluent in the language myself, but they also use Tell Me More, program on the computer. My input is important for the correct pronunciation and to help them with getting that spot on. My mum was German so that is why I am fluent and I lived there for many, many years. I would recommend you do daily lessons though.