French Elementary Curriculum – Never Too Late To Start

by on April 9, 2013

Alex et Zoé 1 Nouvelle édition – Livre + CD-ROM

Parents who are thinking of exposing their children to French should always start them young. This is because children at a very young age are able to absorb things faster and learn quicker especially when it comes to languages. However, don’t worry if your child is a bit older as it’s never too late to let them catch up. Either way, parents could consider getting some French elementary curriculum as this is an excellent way of learning to begin with.

Parent would then be assured that their kids are learning French in a step by step program which they could do at home. The entire curriculum would comprise of books, audio CDs and DVDs. However, for parents who do not speak French, they could always check with the seller or distributor for an English translation. This will come in real handy especially when your own kids start asking you questions in French!

And you don’t need to worry about the studies being boring as they are specifically catered to keep your kids occupied and entertained at the same time. The people who are responsible for coming up with the curriculum know how important it is to capture the attention of children so you can look forward to an interesting journey in learning the French language with them. Parents who planning to home-school their children may even pick up the language as they go along leaning together with their kids.

Besides, it’s always a very good and useful material to have in the home especially when you have young kids running around. All you need to do is to put on a DVD and let them learn some French while being entertained at the same time. For more info on other French related products that are part of the curriculum, please click here http://www.wor.com/cat-french-books—elementary-curriculum.cfm

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Foreign Language Software – More Fun Than Ever

by on March 28, 2013

Foreign Language Software Sample Titles

Anyone remember the 90′s? Well, most of you reading this were probably still in high-school back then. Anyway, RAM used to cost a bomb, phones had external antennas, modems made weird sounds and Starbucks wasn’t on every street corner. Back then, learning languages via software was at its infancy. Unlike the foreign language software you have now, in those days not many languages were available in that format.

Foreign language learning software has come a long way since then. Not enough to totally replace a language tutor but it does make a pretty good secondary language learning tool.

Language learning software comes with loads of features which makes learning fun. The interactive nature contributes to this experience too. Most software comes with built in games, dictionary, videos, songs and other teaching aids.

Some foreign language software come with speech recognition technology which would help correct pronunciations and intonations. That’s pretty cool. However, in order for this to work, an online data base needs to be accessed with certain software.

Foreign language learning sites like WOR.com offer a good variety of foreign language software – http://www.wor.com/cat-foreign-language-and-esl-software.cfm. Aside from ever popular languages like Spanish, French, German and Mandarin, there’s also Khmer, Latvian and Jerriais. I bet the you have never heard of Jerriais. Well, neither have I. To save you the time to Google it – Jèrriais is the form of the Norman language spoken in Jersey, in the Channel Islands, off the coast of France. There you go.

There are other tools on this website as well, which I hope to cover in the weeks ahead. All I can say is that you are never too old to learn a new language. All you need is the right attitude. Sure, you might attain more benefits if you had learn languages when you were just a kid but there’s still so many benefits from learning new languages right now.

Go ahead. Give it a try.

 

 

 

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