Kelly Halldorson

Our daughter Zoe (12) is really interested in learning German right now.

She has been using Google translate and she downloaded an application for her iPod and has been feverishly absorbing. I think she'd loved to have someone to chat with (maybe via Skype? or Facebook?) that also knows how to speak German.

Any other ideas for further resources/ideas/suggestions?

Peace,
Kelly

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Amanda's Shoebox

I've heard a lot of great things about livemocha.com. I haven't used the site myself and I heard about it from people who are not unschoolers so I'm not sure how appropriate the recommendation is, but thought I would offer it in case you wanted to check it out.

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juniperarrow1234

Hi, I'm currently learning Japanese.

One of my favorite things to do read/watch/play the Japanese versions of my favorite English books/manga/movies/computer games/etc. Youtube is a great resource for this. I have found things like the Japanese versions of Disney movies and Pirates of the Caribbean and other popular western movies as well as popular Japanese songs.

-Becki

Sandra Dodd

Here's something a friend sent me this morning! I had played with
setting it to different accents in English (and being a little miffed
that "UK" and "American" aren't further differentiated into regions),
but I went back and found it will do German, too! With seven
different voices.

So it's not conversation, but it can pronounce words.

http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php?sitepal

Pretty fun. There are 26 languages there.
There are interesting "misfires," and it's fun to wonder why. It's
just a toy, not the answer to all questions of pronunciation, but it's
a cute toy.

Sandra

Su Penn

> She has been using Google translate and she downloaded an application for her iPod and has been feverishly absorbing. I think she'd loved to have someone to chat with (maybe via Skype? or Facebook?) that also knows how to speak German.

LiveMocha (livemocha.com) is a language-learning site on-line that is similar to Rosetta Stone and IIRC correctly incorporates on-ine conversations with native speakers.

Su

abby987_sask

Check out the website www.livemocha.com, it's a free site with lessons similar to Rosetta Stone as well as features where you can have native speakers listen to or read your efforts & tell you how you're doing or you can chat live with them too I believe.

--- In [email protected], "Kelly Halldorson" <kelly@...> wrote:
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> Our daughter Zoe (12) is really interested in learning German right now.
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> She has been using Google translate and she downloaded an application for her iPod and has been feverishly absorbing. I think she'd loved to have someone to chat with (maybe via Skype? or Facebook?) that also knows how to speak German.
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> Any other ideas for further resources/ideas/suggestions?
>
> Peace,
> Kelly
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> http://kelly.halldorson.com/blog
> http://skeletonsdontsleep.com
> http://facebook.com/jeffnkelly
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Ariana Zora Ziminsky

Hi Kelly,

Here quickly are some useful German links I have saved in my favorites:

Translator: http://www.dict.cc
Verb Conjugator: http://www.cambridgeclarion.org/gremple/konjugation.html

Learn German - Email/Online Flashcards: http://www.german-flashcards.com
Radio Stations: http://www.listenlive.eu/germany.html
Deutsche Welle Radio: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,2142,4678,00.html
Project Gutenberg - German Books Online: http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/index.php?id=65

- Ariana


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> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:45:44 -0400
> Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] suggestions for German
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> > She has been using Google translate and she downloaded an application for her iPod and has been feverishly absorbing. I think she'd loved to have someone to chat with (maybe via Skype? or Facebook?) that also knows how to speak German.
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> LiveMocha (livemocha.com) is a language-learning site on-line that is similar to Rosetta Stone and IIRC correctly incorporates on-ine conversations with native speakers.
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> Su
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Bob Collier

--- In [email protected], "Kelly Halldorson" <kelly@...> wrote:
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> Our daughter Zoe (12) is really interested in learning German right now.
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> She has been using Google translate and she downloaded an application for her iPod and has been feverishly absorbing. I think she'd loved to have someone to chat with (maybe via Skype? or Facebook?) that also knows how to speak German.
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> Any other ideas for further resources/ideas/suggestions?
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There's Steve Kaufmann's LingQ: http://www.lingq.com/

Bob

evawitsel

Maybe she would like to watch some German television online? You can find lots of German tv programs online here: http://www.sendungverpasst.de/

Eva
Berend (5 y.o.) & Fiene (3 y.o.)
From The Netherlands, not Germany ;-)

thecugals

I used and liked Rosetta Stone online, free through our local library (but I could use it at home), when I wanted to brush up a little on German. Now our library uses something else, which I've not tried. In any case, you could look there. I don't think my German is good enought to chat with anyone.

Also, about 13 years ago I saw a foreign-language "newspaper" that came in German and was purposely written at an intermediate level. I think it was mostly marketed to schools and teachers, and I don't remember what it was called, but maybe you could search for that.

Beth

--- In [email protected], "Kelly Halldorson" <kelly@...> wrote:
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> Our daughter Zoe (12) is really interested in learning German right now.
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> She has been using Google translate and she downloaded an application for her iPod and has been feverishly absorbing. I think she'd loved to have someone to chat with (maybe via Skype? or Facebook?) that also knows how to speak German.
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> Any other ideas for further resources/ideas/suggestions?
>
> Peace,
> Kelly
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> http://skeletonsdontsleep.com
> http://facebook.com/jeffnkelly
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Bernadette Lynn

On 29 June 2010 17:58, Kelly Halldorson <kelly@...> wrote:

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When my father wanted to learn Arabic he started by buying a set of Ladybird
Key Words reading books in Arabic, and recently both my parents got a good
start in French by reading the Harry Potter books in French - book in one
hand, dictionary in the other. By the time my mother reached the end of the
second book she was hardly using the dictionary - and they both thoroughly
enjoyed reading the books as well.

You can fairly easily build up a good vocabulary that way, and develop a
feeling for the patterns and grammar of the language.

Bernadette.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/U15459


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Sandra Dodd

-=-When my father wanted to learn Arabic he started by buying a set of
Ladybird
Key Words reading books in Arabic-=-

I think the American equivalent of Ladybird would be Usborne (their
picture vocabulary books). It's possible to get Ladybird books through
import, and nowadays the internet makes it almost easy.
http://www.amazon.co.uk

If you search ladybird and german, there are some stories and
folktales in German, and will be fairly easy reading levels probably.

Sandra

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[email protected]

Hi

I am from Germany and I heard about Radical Unschooling by reading the german magazin "Unerzogen" (www.unerzogen-magazin.de). They are discussing about natural/free learning, peaceful parenting, radical unschooling etc. Maybe that would be interesting for her? There is also a Yahoogroup which is quite active and growing! (http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/unerzogen/)

There are mostly adults, but they might have children who would be interested in chatting with an english-speaking young unschooler. The magazin has free articles, e.g. here. http://www.unerzogen-magazin.de/aktuelle_ausgabe/?view=ad&aid=181.
There is even a group for kids (Unerzogen for children), but it is not very active. However, they might be interested in chatting: http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/unerzogen-graswurzel/

Unerzogen has special days for chatting as well, on Mondays and Thursdays at 8 pm CEST, see here www.unerzogen.de.

Anyway, if she has more questions, please contact me directly. I would love to help by creating international friendships!

Bettina

--- In [email protected], "Kelly Halldorson" <kelly@...> wrote:
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> Our daughter Zoe (12) is really interested in learning German right now.
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> She has been using Google translate and she downloaded an application for her iPod and has been feverishly absorbing. I think she'd loved to have someone to chat with (maybe via Skype? or Facebook?) that also knows how to speak German.
>
> Any other ideas for further resources/ideas/suggestions?
>
> Peace,
> Kelly
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> http://skeletonsdontsleep.com
> http://facebook.com/jeffnkelly
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