Betty

Greetings Emile and all of you interested in learning spanish,
Chating with audio is an easy way for learning languages. MSN messenger is
very secure and private.
I'm a radical unschooler mom from Puerto Rico, for me chating with another
unschooler is a real pleasure, I can have english practice and you can learn
spanish with me! If you like the idea, send an email to bap58@... .
I only use msn messenger.
Betty Polanco

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Emile Snyder [mailto:unschooling@...]
>
> To try gamely to wrestle this back around to unschooling... is there
> anyone on the list who has kids (or is a kid) interested in learning a
> second language in a non-class environment? What kinds of strategies
> work for people? I'm currently trying to read the first Harry Potter
> book side by side in english and spanish. It's interesting, but I don't
> know if I could ever get fluent this way ;) Certainly not speaking
> fluent, but maybe reading...
>
> -emile

Lars Hedbor

Another great resource, for those whose kids learn well from
"textbooks," is the WikiBooks project; its Spanish text is at
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Spanish_%28Cover%29.

For those who haven't encountered the WikiMedia phenomenon yet, spend
a few minutes exploring http://en.wikipedia.org -- it's a real trip.
A whole encyclopedia whose articles have been written, corrected,
re-written and vetted by folks just like you and I. If you see
something in an article that you just *know* is wrong, you can jump
right in and fix it. Try *that* with your Brittanica! :-)

Before you reject the idea out of hand (not that I expect too many
unschoolers to do so!), take a moment to read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Replies_to_common_objections.

Man, do I ever envy kids growing up in an age where such resources are
- literally - at their fingertips! Humankind has never seen such an
age for self-directed learning!

- Lars D. H. Hedbor
Oregon City, Oregon


On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 21:48:02 -0400, Betty <bap58x@...> wrote:
>
> Greetings Emile and all of you interested in learning spanish,
> Chating with audio is an easy way for learning languages. MSN messenger is
> very secure and private.
> I'm a radical unschooler mom from Puerto Rico, for me chating with another
> unschooler is a real pleasure, I can have english practice and you can learn
> spanish with me! If you like the idea, send an email to bap58@... .
> I only use msn messenger.
> Betty Polanco
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Emile Snyder [mailto:unschooling@...]
> >
> > To try gamely to wrestle this back around to unschooling... is there
> > anyone on the list who has kids (or is a kid) interested in learning a
> > second language in a non-class environment? What kinds of strategies
> > work for people? I'm currently trying to read the first Harry Potter
> > book side by side in english and spanish. It's interesting, but I don't
> > know if I could ever get fluent this way ;) Certainly not speaking
> > fluent, but maybe reading...
> >
> > -emile
>
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