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PetraLingua® courses are specially designed for children between the ages of 3 and 10 years. Rainbow is quite young, so I am getting him used to basic French vocabulary, and so far so good. While he doesn't speak much anymore (he used to say a lot of Arabic and English words) - I don't think he has EVER said a French word, lol , although he hears French on a daily basis.
Also, PetraLingua® is a great learning tool for teens and adults. I even downloaded the French activity book so that I will have easy access, however, more importantly, other family members can also read and learn along.
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- 21 lessons
- 11 French songs for kids
- 80 animated French videos for kids
- 140 interactive French exercises for kids
- 500 basic French words
- French picture dictionary for kids
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Rainbow is so lucky to be in an environment where he can learn different languages. I'm pretty sure it will work quite well especially that there are a lot of tools out there to help him. In our case it is quite a challenge for me to teach our daughter my language as I do not have the proper tools except me talking to her in my language. I must say though that she does understand me most but still keep on answering me in Spanish.... small steps :)
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Sp- yes, we have different challenges. For me, I learned from my own experience. I understand French but don't speak it well (mostly) because I had that kind of environment as well - I think that where we become passive learners.
I am sure she totally understand every single word you are saying though, like Rainbow seems to know what baba is saying in Arabic, and to a lesser extent - me in French.
BUT, my lack of French, and baba's lack of time to speak to him probably means that he will be a bit passive in at least one of those languages.
Regardless, i think there's no waste in the effort, and I think LSP will benefit in the long run because it won't be foreign to her to hear your language (is it Tagalog?)
It's fun and rewarding, and really interesting.I would love to read about your stories as well. I remember the obne where she picked up a dirty word, lol.
Kids are so funny.
I hope your language training goes well! I relied on my husband speaking arabic with my children - but it never caught on unfortunately - he found it too easy to speak English with them!
Karima, husbands are not the best source of language information, and yes, when there is a language in common it's even more work.
I have picked up enough basic Arabic to teach Rainbow, and inshaAllah he will be immersed with family.
It's not too late for you to start... ;)
wow! Very interesting! Here with my girls I need them to speak more Spanish! They hear me talk to them in Spanish but everything else is in English, then hubby only speaks English so they hear me talking in English to their daddy, TV mostly in English and church in English... so they understand when I speak Spanish but they don't seem to be able to talk in my language... I want any external aid I can get to help them because TV in Spanish (public TV... I don't have cable or anything like that) is all trash... and even the "good educational" programs are not properly translated (Dora the Explorer has no clue what Spanish is! LOL!) ... so yes... I am definitely interested on this!
It's worth it paloma, if you really want to engage the kids in Spanish as well. It seems an obvious that kids will speak a language when one or both parents do, but I have seen otherwise.
I would love to read or speak about your language journey when you begin a program with the kids.
Good luck!