"Le Grand Concours, or National French Contest, is a French event in the form of a 60 minute national examination, designed, written, financed, and disseminated by the members of the American Association of Teachers of French. Its purpose is to help stimulate further interest in the teaching and learning of French and to help identify and reward achievement on the part of both students and teachers."
Each year the AATG writes a test to assess proficiency in German. Teachers nationwide can offer the exam to their students. The awards program has been around for 30 years and about 25,000 students take the exam each year.
The National Latin Exam is offered under the joint sponsorship of the American Classical League and the National Junior Classical League.They are pleased to announce the 2003 ACL/NJCL National Latin Exam. It is a national exam that all Latin students are eligible to take.
For ages 4-8, this book includes lists of common Japanese words in a colorful format. The words are listed in Hiragana as well as English pronunciation.
This book is an introduction to the two kana systems. The book covers origin and function, writing practice, pronunciation, and some vocabulary.
This series by Martha Wilson is a simple, straightforward, traditional approach to Latin, with some adaptations for younger children, including chants and crossword puzzles. All assignments are clearly and directly presented. The series has a teacher's guide, which is purchased separately. Strong grammatical approach; almost no illustrations; some religious content.
Living Books is story telling programs with various titles like: Just Grandma & Me, Just Me and My Mom, Tortoise & the Hare, Arthurs Big Trouble and others. It is a great program which helps children read while entertaining them. It also allows you to switch between several languages like Spanish, French, German and Japanese.
This is a beginning Latin course for ages 7-10 with conversations between a family in Roman Britain (Vindolanda). With many illustrations, the book contains a mixture of stories and myths, grammar explanations and exercises, and background cultural information.
The FALCON program (Full-year Asian Language CONcentration) is a concentrated Chinese or Japanese language program that allows beginning students to learn at an advanced pace. Students may attend for the full year or just do the summer program.
This non-profit organization was established in France in 1978. It arranges long-term language immersion exchanges for students ages 9-16. American students are paired with a student of their own age in France, Spain, or Germany. After the two are matched, they spend a year together: six months in their own country, with their own family, and six months with their exchange partner’s family. Teens 14 and up can participate for a period of as short as three months.
Global Student Experience (GSE) offers summer, quarter, semester, and year-long study abroad programs in Europe, Australia, and South America. Students expand their college education by studying in Barcelona, Granada, Madrid, Paris, Florence, Rome, London, Sydney, Guadalajara, and Buenos Aires.
Learning Programs International (LPI) was established in 1989 to provide an academically challenging and culturally thorough study abroad program for U.S. high school students. Based in Austin, Texas, LPI works closely with fully-accredited foreign universities and the LPI resident staff in each program location to provide cultural activities, tutoring services, language exchanges, volunteer opportunities, and numerous possibilities for improving language performance. Students earn college credit, experience another culture and explore the area around their program city through cultural excursions.
This online course uses a Dynamic Immersion method to teach students a foreign language. You learn to speak, write and understand new languages using your natural language-learning abilities and fully-interactive technologies.
This program is not a simple summer tour, but rather, a rigorous program of intensive study of Latin. Latin in Rome is a college level Latin course and requires that you have taken three years of high school Latin prior to participation. During Latin in Rome students study classical texts and have the opportunity to earn three hours of college credit. Participants study passages from Cicero, Pliny, Vergil and Horace relevant to their travels. Students also read selected passages from these and other authors to enhance visits to sites in Rome and Naples. The academic program includes lectures by University of Dallas Classics faculty who have lived and taught in Rome, daily language tutorials, group discussions of texts, as well as guided visits to the historical sites and world famous museums in the vicinity.
This Spanish language summer camp offers several courses, including a two-week immersion summer program, a high school credit program and a college credit program.
This summer program about Asian Cultures is co-sponsored with the Asian Studies Program at the University of Vermont. Topics of lectures and workshops include Family and Society, Arts and Language, and Medicine and Health. These areas will be threads to link history, philosophy, religion, and political and economic development.
Bilingual Journey was created by two professional stay-at-home moms who were unable to locate quality educational materials in Spanish to raise their bilingual children. Bilingual Journey is the result of their efforts to make these products available to all bilingual families. The products include activity books, videos, software, music, and posters.
Since 1985, Center for Cultural Interchange (CCI) has been dedicated to the promotion of cultural understanding, academic development and world peace. This is a great site for summer camps abroad. CCI camps provide high quality supervision and many activities including a variety of sports, language classes, and social events. CCI Youth Camps are perfect for the young traveler or students wanting a more sports oriented program. Programs are available for students between the ages of 10 – 17 with beginning to advanced language abilities. Generally, several 2, 3 and 4 week sessions are available during the summer. Destinations for language camps include: Spain, Switzerland, and Italy.
This website is designed to help students of all ages learn Chinese online with lessons from experienced teachers. Chinese lessons are customized for each teaching need. This is designed to help participants learn the Chinese language and gain a strong understanding of culture and business communication.
This site is a comprehensive news source entirely in Spanish.
This mixed-media program is a fun, educational, entertaining upbeat music CD and video series for kids ages 3-8. These CDs and videos feature Spanish songs, counting songs, spelling songs, songs about manners, and a poetic story. They also feature everyday children from local communities interacting and learning with Ms. Maria. COOL SCHOOL WITH MS. MARIA is a program that offers children an opportunity to learn while providing entertainment to captivate their attention. It’s a fun, musical, educational tool for parents and teachers.
"Our Spanish, French, German and Italian programs are taught by native-speaking educators who immerse the children 100% in the foreign language in the context of engaging games, songs, arts & crafts, treasure hunts, and more - all developed by the Language Stars team of educators, linguists and early childhood experts! We focus solely on a young child’s “Window of Opportunity” to absorb a foreign language naturally, and we track the progress of each child from the listening stage through his first spontaneous sentences."
The Learnables is an auditory-based approach to learning a foreign language. The kit comes with a set of audiotapes and a booklet. No English is used at all; students learn the language through the foreign language tapes and, initially, accompanying pictures in the instructional booklet. After a student acquires some proficiency in the beginnings of the language, the booklets introduce words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs written in that language (still no English translation). Both beginning and intermediate courses are available.
Spanish Multimedia offers a vast selection of videos in Spanish including Sesame Street, Barney, National Geographic, Disney, and family classics like The Wizard of Oz and Miracle on 34th Street. Also available in Spanish are documentaries and instructional videos in math, science, geography, etc.
This site is an online language translator on which you can enter up to 150 words for translation in different languages.
This site contains online exercises, quizzes & tests, grammar notes and links to audio pronunciation guides. It also has vocabulary lists, games, cultural notes, links to lesson plans and sites to create games and quizzes.
ECCE ROMANI is an online Resource for students interestes in studying Latin.
This free curriculum website provides educators with lesson plans and web links for the humanities, including: arts and culture; literature and language arts; foreign languages; and, history and social studies. This site is a valuable resource for educators looking for creative ways to better teach the humanities. This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to the classroom.
This is an online Comparison of Introductory Latin Programs from Martha Robinson at Homeschool Christian. This resource has book reviews on various Latin text books.
This site offers an extensive collection of free Spanish learning tools. The online tutorial/curriculum covers pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, verb drills and other topics.
One of the best online Spanish learning sites. The webmasters are English teachers living in Spain who have put together links and tools useful to student of Spanish.
The National Spanish Examination is an online standardized assessment tool given throughout the United States. It measures vocabulary and grammar, listening comprehension and reading comprehension.
This site offers a foreign-language curriculum that is popular with homeschoolers, because neither a parent nor a tutor who knows the language is required to use the materials. Power-Glide was designed by a linguist and appeals to those who want a more intuitive approach to second-language learning.
This site has hundreds of links divided into categories: Spanish language listserves, Spanish language search engines, maps, organizations supporting Spanish teaching and benchmarks, online courses and lessons, dictionaries, Spanish art and cultural exhibits, Spanish history, Spanish grammar, etc.
Offered by the Downriver Recreation Commission in Algonac, MI, Universal Person to Person offers a wide variety of programs to people interested in cultural diversity. Join us each month for a cultural exchange of new programs. Certified teachers will provide you with sampling of Japanese, Italian or Spanish language. Learn calligraphy, bonsai, origami and shogi. Play canasta, the piano or clog. Practice public speaking or creative writing. Meet some wonderful new friends and learn new skills and hobbies.
This CD-ROM package is a self-teaching Latin course, allowing multiple levels of students to utilize the program. There are two courses: Level I, which is equivalent to the first two years of high-school Latin and Level II, which is equivalent to the second two years.
This DOS-based program presents the student with spoken Japanese from square one. At any time, students may choose to repeat the last Japanese phrase, see it written in Japanese, or hear it's English equivalent, but the program is primarily a spoken Japanese environment. Though Dynamic Japanese includes no practice booklets and a minimalist study guide, colorful pictures and animations supplement the Japanese phrases and dialogs.
FrenchClasses.com offers an exciting way to learn French. They have several products available including a CD-Rom, Phone Lessons, and Online Lessons. All of the classes are available for all level's from Beginner to Advanced.
This CD-Rom is great for young children just starting to learn Spanish. It teaches colors, numbers, body parts, and simple nouns in a fun and exciting format.
A set of 3 CD's that include 10 Languages: Spanish, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Indonesian, Korean, Hebrew, Chinese, and Portuguese. Each language is taught by characters who use only the language being taught.
Learn Latin Now! 9.0 incorporates a variety of methods to learn Latin. In addition to the computer program speaking, you can speak into a microphone and check your pronunciation. For the beginner, it uses mythology, phrases and games, and includes more advanced Latin to further your learning.
This foreign langauge curriculum uses a mix of electronic media to reach young children. Muzzy the space traveler and his friends create a total learning environment to engage children, while still young enough to naturally learn a language.
This mixed-media foreign language curriculum helps children understand and communicate. Based on natural learning principles with multi-sensory activities for all types of learners, including puzzles, games, stories and music.
This is a Windows based supplement for formal Japanese lessons. It is a wonderful tool to help children (and adults) learn to recognize two of the Japanese alphabets. It has colorful graphics, animation, sound, and innovative drills and games. We have tried other CD-Roms, and this was the most helpful in learning the alphabets and learning about the Japanese language structure.
CD Rom based Japanese language lessons. Includes fun games to help learn Hiragana and katakana alphabets. Smart Start Japanese lets you learn in three different ways or modes: Listening, Reading or Speaking.