Homeschool Resources: Foreign Language

Welcome to our Homeschool Resources: Foreign Language. Would you take a look at the websites and let me know if you’ve used these resources with your students? Or is there another resource you use to teach your students Foreign Language.

Animation-ish

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United Kingdom’s National Archives: Beginners’ Latin– Grades 6-12, with parental supervision
This website from the United Kingdom’s National Archives provides lessons to learn Latin as it was “used in England between 1086 and 1733, when it was the official language used in documents.”
Per the information on the homepage, this Latin is different from classical Latin and provides information as to what the differences are. When arriving at the site, read through the helpful information on this page and review the information under Stage 1 & Stage 2. Lessons under Stage 1 include:

Introduction to Verbs
Introduction to nouns; first declension nouns; cases of nouns
Second declension nouns; ‘to be’
Non; second conjugation verbs; numbers
First and second declension adjectives; ego and nos
Hic, hec, hoc; third and fourth conjugation verbs
Third declension nouns and adjectives
Prepositions; possession
Using the word list for verbs; verbs – past tense
Qui, que, quod; the family
Fourth and fifth declension nouns; days of the week
Adverbs; numbers and dates; months; useful phrases; dating clauses

Lessons include easy to understand explanations of concepts, helpful tips to remember material, sentences for practice translation, and additional interactive activities for more practice.
When finished with these lessons, return to the home page and locate “Stage 2” to find 12 more advanced lessons that expand the students’ knowledge of: