Good morning, as your preparing your students Lesson Plans/ Unit Studies I wanted to bring you Homeschool Resources: Foreign Languages. Also if your looking for Geography Resources check out Live Lingua: Free Peace Corps Language Courses.
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Live Lingua: Free Peace Corps Language Courses
Grades 6-12, with parental supervision
This page at the commercial website, Live Lingua, serves as a repository for the language materials from the U.S. Peace Corps.
Visitors will find over 100 different languages to choose from including many languages non-traditionally studied in schools. Each language provides a downloadable PDF workbook and some also include audio lessons.
While the traditional languages of Spanish, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, and more are available, some of the lesser learned languages that include audios are:
- Bengali, an eastern Indo-Aryan language
- Chewa, also known as Nyanja, the Bantu language family
- Ewe, a Niger-Congo language spoken in southeastern Ghana and southern Togo
- Hausa, the Chadic language
- Jahanka, a Manding language of Guinea
- Jola (Diola), a dialect spoken in Senegal, The Gambia, and Guinea Bissau
- Krio, the de facto national language spoken throughout the West African nation of Sierra Leone
- Luganda, the major language of Uganda
- Marshallese, a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in the Marshall Islands
- Setswana, a Bantu language belonging to the Niger-Congo language family
- Turkmen, the national language of Turkmenistan
- Zarma, one of the Songhai languages
Even if you may not be interested in learning some of the lesser-studied languages, this website could provide an interesting addition to your geography studies.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
