Ideas for supporting foreign language learning over the summer?

[AaronLandon]

My early elementary kids have been learning Spanish and French through in school immersion and from their nanny and grandmother. Prior summers, we also supplemented with travel and language camps. Given that none of that is an option for the foreseeable future, we are trying to figure out how best to keep up their language acquisition. We speak Spanish, but they won’t speak it to us. We don’t speak French. For any others who are trying to support second language learning, what are you doing during this time? Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Our kids speak 3 languages (including English) and that’s because we only speak to our kids in those languages. We used to watch movies only in our languages, but we gave that up. We travel to those countries every year. We spend summers in Europe with my family and we are doing that this summer as well... we don’t do any class or anything special per se... our nanny speaks a bit of my language and speaks to the kids in my language...

[Anonymous]

We are using DuoLingo and there are online classes for kids. You might want to google those

[Anonymous]

Try Concordia language village - 3 hr virtual immersion per day. My kid usually goes in person, which is canceled this year. The in person camp is phenomenal. Assume this will be good. It is true immersion.

[Anonymous]

My child speaks French as a second language--not yet fluent, but conversational and good comprehension. We're not fluent ourselves and speak English 95% of the time at home. We've signed up for a few weeks of virtual French camp through Alliance Francaise and My French Classes.

All cartoons are in French at home.

She is learning Spanish too, but so far we haven't made any plans for Spanish. We may do Duolingo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child speaks French as a second language--not yet fluent, but conversational and good comprehension. We're not fluent ourselves and speak English 95% of the time at home. We've signed up for a few weeks of virtual French camp through Alliance Francaise and My French Classes.

All cartoons are in French at home.

She is learning Spanish too, but so far we haven't made any plans for Spanish. We may do Duolingo.

P.S. I saw in the camps forum that WIS also has virtual camp, so that's another option.

[Anonymous]

Just because your kids won't speak Spanish back to you, doesn't mean they aren't learning it when you speak it to them. Keep doing that.

[Anonymous]

AaronLandon wrote:My early elementary kids have been learning Spanish and French through in school immersion and from their nanny and grandmother. Prior summers, we also supplemented with travel and language camps. Given that none of that is an option for the foreseeable future, we are trying to figure out how best to keep up their language acquisition. We speak Spanish, but they won’t speak it to us. omegle xender We don’t speak French. For any others who are trying to support second language learning, what are you doing during this time? Thanks!

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