Marietta Shirk

Can anyone suggest a good way for my son to pick up Spanish? He's very
very interested in it, but taking a class for little ones won't work for
him.

He really enjoys the computer, also listening to audio CD's. Any
suggestions for either of those formats???

We already have some spanish books around the house. I have rudimentary
spanish from high school.

Marietta
Matthew 4 1/2
Alexander 1

joanna514

I found this on line. I bet you could find lots more with google.

http://pbskids.org/sesame/word/index.html
Joanna



--- In AlwaysLearning@y..., "Marietta Shirk" <mariettashirk@h...>
wrote:
> Can anyone suggest a good way for my son to pick up Spanish? He's
very
> very interested in it, but taking a class for little ones won't
work for
> him.
>
> He really enjoys the computer, also listening to audio CD's. Any
> suggestions for either of those formats???
>
> We already have some spanish books around the house. I have
rudimentary
> spanish from high school.
>
> Marietta
> Matthew 4 1/2
> Alexander 1

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In a message dated 2/18/02 10:54:51 PM, mariettashirk@... writes:

<< Can anyone suggest a good way for my son to pick up Spanish? He's very
very interested in it, but taking a class for little ones won't work for
him. >>

Music on CDs or tapes with easy words (kids' songs).
TV shows, if you have a Spanish channel, or old tapes of Plaza Sesamo (I'm
not sure of the exact name of their version of Sesame Street) or other kids'
shows. "Villa Allegre" was a bi-lingual one.

Sandra

Tia Leschke

>
>
>We already have some spanish books around the house. I have rudimentary
>spanish from high school.

Are you in a place where there are TV programs in Spanish? You could make
a game of watching shows and trying to figure out what's going on. (My
grandfather and I used to watch movies with the sound turned off and try to
guess. Sometimes it was hilarious.)

Or maybe there's someone nearby who speaks Spanish well and is lonely. You
could invite that person to come for coffee and Spanish conversation once a
week. If you have enough Spanish to understand and be understood (even
just barely), you and the person could have a conversation without putting
your son on the spot. He could just listen, joining in only if he felt
comfortable.
Tia

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Tia Leschke
leschke@...
On Vancouver Island

Marietta Shirk

ooooh, Joanna Thanks!!! My son doesn't like SS so I never thought to look
there. He is already engrossed in the game link you sent. Thanks!!
I'm sure he'll absorb this one by next week. Time to round up some other
ideas to have waiting in the wings :)

Marietta
Matthew 4 1/2
Alexander 1



> I found this on line. I bet you could find lots more with google.
>
> http://pbskids.org/sesame/word/index.html
> Joanna

Elizabeth Hill

>
>
> << Can anyone suggest a good way for my son to pick up Spanish? He's
> very
> very interested in it, but taking a class for little ones won't work
> for
> him. >>
>
> **Music on CDs or tapes with easy words (kids' songs).**

Lyric Language makes a video that has simple songs with one line sung in
English and then in Spanish. We were able to get this from our
library. In fact, our library has quite extensive foreign language
resources, so that might be where you want to start. (If they have
nothing, you could try asking the librarians to get something.)

Betsy


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Karin

I know Dora the Explorer on Nickelodeon deals with learning Spanish. My boys are 9 & 10 and they watch it a few times a week (shhhh....don't tell anyone....this show is geared towards younger kids and they would not admit to watching it!)

My boys also take a wonderful Spanish class once a week from an ex-Spanish teacher who is Mexican. She is the best. She teaches them mostly through games and songs and makes it so fun. She also brings food and treats every time, and rewards all the kids regardless of how well they do. She started out with the pronunciation of the Spanish alphabet, singing the A-B-C song and also with a standard list of about 20-30 common nouns to learn throughout the house (like door, window, table, chair, pen, pencil, book, etc.) Maybe you could write some of these words on index cards and place them over or on the object? (like over the door place the card puerta)
She also taught them a few basic commands like stand up, sit down, open, pick up, walk to, etc... and very soon was speaking real sentences to them in Spanish and they could understand! (Abre el libro - open the book)
She's also having them learn numbers to 20, days of the week, and months of the year, and a few common diagloges.

Well, maybe it's just because she is a fun teacher and she knows what she is doing, but the kids are really enjoying learning Spanish from her, and me too!

Karin







----- Original Message -----
From: Marietta Shirk
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 9:50 PM
Subject: [AlwaysLearning] spanish programs?


Can anyone suggest a good way for my son to pick up Spanish? He's very
very interested in it, but taking a class for little ones won't work for
him.

He really enjoys the computer, also listening to audio CD's. Any
suggestions for either of those formats???

We already have some spanish books around the house. I have rudimentary
spanish from high school.

Marietta
Matthew 4 1/2
Alexander 1

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Marietta Shirk

You know, WHY did I never think of labelling stuff in my house??? This is
so obvious <smacks forehead>
Thank you Karin!
Our homeschool group has an ongoing spanish class but my son is much too
active to enjoy it (it's more of a 'circle time' type teaching).
We used to watch Dora the Explorer until Matthew got over his television
fixation and now he has no interest in TV so we cancelled our cable. He
picked up some from the show and loved it at the time.
The reason he is SOOO interested in spanish is a friend of his is bilingual
French and so he knows how neat another language is. And he knows mommy and
daddy know a smattering of spanish, so he's fixated on it. I haven't done
much about it until now (busy with the baby). Time to get cracking with
these labels! :)

Marietta
Matthew 4 1/2
Alexander 1



> I know Dora the Explorer on Nickelodeon deals with learning Spanish. My
boys are 9 & 10 and they watch it a few times a week (shhhh....don't tell
anyone....this show is geared towards younger kids and they would not admit
to watching it!)
>
> My boys also take a wonderful Spanish class once a week from an ex-Spanish
teacher who is Mexican. She is the best. She teaches them mostly through
games and songs and makes it so fun. She also brings food and treats every
time, and rewards all the kids regardless of how well they do. She started
out with the pronunciation of the Spanish alphabet, singing the A-B-C song
and also with a standard list of about 20-30 common nouns to learn
throughout the house (like door, window, table, chair, pen, pencil, book,
etc.) Maybe you could write some of these words on index cards and place
them over or on the object? (like over the door place the card puerta)
> She also taught them a few basic commands like stand up, sit down, open,
pick up, walk to, etc... and very soon was speaking real sentences to them
in Spanish and they could understand! (Abre el libro - open the book)
> She's also having them learn numbers to 20, days of the week, and months
of the year, and a few common diagloges.
>
> Well, maybe it's just because she is a fun teacher and she knows what she
is doing, but the kids are really enjoying learning Spanish from her, and me
too!
>
> Karin
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Marietta Shirk
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 9:50 PM
> Subject: [AlwaysLearning] spanish programs?
>
>
> Can anyone suggest a good way for my son to pick up Spanish? He's very
> very interested in it, but taking a class for little ones won't work for
> him.
>
> He really enjoys the computer, also listening to audio CD's. Any
> suggestions for either of those formats???
>
> We already have some spanish books around the house. I have rudimentary
> spanish from high school.
>
> Marietta
> Matthew 4 1/2
> Alexander 1
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Marietta Shirk

I've never heard of this one, I'll check my library. Thanks Elizabeth! :)

Marietta
Matthew 4 1/2
Alexander 1


> Lyric Language makes a video that has simple songs with one line sung in
> English and then in Spanish. We were able to get this from our
> library. In fact, our library has quite extensive foreign language
> resources, so that might be where you want to start. (If they have
> nothing, you could try asking the librarians to get something.)
>
> Betsy

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In a message dated 2/19/02 12:07:15 PM, ecsamhill@... writes:

<< > **Music on CDs or tapes with easy words (kids' songs).** >>

My college boyfriend had grown up in India speaking only Hindi, and started
learning English when he was 12 or so, from a Harry Belafonte album. The
accent didn't hurt him any. He learned ALL the words, and when he moved to
Toronto it made it easier for him to pick up English (even though they
weren't talking about bananas, rum, or Kingston <g>).

Sandra

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My kids like to borrow videos and children's books in Spanish that they know
by heart in English. (some disney stuff, Goodnight Moon...) I don't know how
much they've picked up by doing that, but they've enjoyed it enough to keep
bringing one home once a month or so.

Deborah

Sharon Rudd

). Time
> to get cracking with
> these labels! :)

When I was pregnant with DS3 (and overdue) I labeled
the things in the house with English and Spanish.
Partly to help DS1 and DS2 with reading (7 and almost
5), me with the Spanish. My midwife came for a visit.
:) She thought I had gone off the deep end with OCD.
Labels everywhere.

Sharon of the Swamp

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DVDs sometimes have soundtracks in other languages, or subtitles. Familiar
movies in other languages could be cool. Our Wizard of Oz will play in
French, and Dorothy says "Mon DIEU!" for "gosh" or "oh my."

Sandra

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Margaret and Margarita/Margaret y Margarita, by Lyn Reiser, is a really
cute picture book with English and Spanish dialogue between the two girls
who meet in the park. My dd and I take turns reading it aloud. Our
library has a very large selection of children's books that contain both
English and Spanish.

We went to Mexico last October and the nearest child was my dd's age and
only spoke Spanish. I found that it was my easier for me to use my
limited Spanish when I really had to. If I knew the person spoke English
it was hard to not speak English myself.

Mary Ellen

Marietta Shirk

Very interesting take on the nesting instinct Sharon ROTFL

Marietta
Matthew 4 1/2
Alexander 1


> When I was pregnant with DS3 (and overdue) I labeled
> the things in the house with English and Spanish.
> Partly to help DS1 and DS2 with reading (7 and almost
> 5), me with the Spanish. My midwife came for a visit.
> :) She thought I had gone off the deep end with OCD.
> Labels everywhere.
>