Home Schooling

If you were able to take an online French or Spanish class, would you?

September 17th, 2008 by Miguel

Chalkbrd posted:

I’m a public school French and Spanish teacher (for 20 years) and I am considering offering lessons online. Is this something homeschoolers would be interested in? It would be offered through Yahoo Messenger so it would use voice and be live. The cost would be very minimal if I could get a decent sized group (I’m not in it for the money, but to help homeschoolers and others learn languages).
FYI: 15,000 French words are directly in the English language. Learning French expands your vocabulary tremendously, and a study of French has been found to cause significant increases in the verbal portion of the SAT test.

About learning on tapes, MSNBC had a story a couple of years ago that said that babies who were given real native speakers to interact with and babies who were shown videos of the exact same interactions showed quite different reactions. The ones who had the live interactions learned the language they were hearing. The ones who watched the videos did not.

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