Good morning, welcome to our series sharing Homeschool Resources: Music and Foreign Languages. Charlie has been asking to lean how to speak Spanish and this week we will be checking out Surface Languages and Home School Piano to see if I can get Charlie interested in playing a instrument and off his Game System and the Tablet he has glued to his hand. Which is driving me batty.
HomeSchoolPiano has been designed to teach even absolute beginners how to play the piano by developing the ear, reading, improvisation, and composition skills of your student.
Grades 5-12, approximately, with parental supervision
Hello. Hola (Spanish). Salut (French). Szia (Hungarian). Ahlan (Arabic). Hej (Danish). Learn thousands of useful phrases for over 40 different languages with this free online resource.
Using audios of native speakers, flashcards, and simple word games, this website offers the budding linguist a wonderful starting point to become versed in thousands of fundamental words and phrases.
Learn:
- Alphabets
- Numbers
- Descriptive words and phrases
- Food related words and phrases
- Time related words
- Phrases to use in an emergency
- Communication problem phrases
- Directions
- And much, much more
Just a sampling of the ever-growing list of languages available includes:
- Bulgarian
- Chinese
- Estonian
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Latin
- Maltese
- Russian
- Swahili
- Tagalog
- Welsh
- Yiddish
Also currently available are 4 language courses for beginners which consist of 15-27 lessons intended to teach basic grammatical structure and sentence patterns. Languages courses currently available are:
- French
- Italian
- Polish
- Portuguese (Brazil)
Practice your language skills while on the go for free by downloading the companion app available for certain smart devices!
With this website open the doors to different languages beyond the ones traditionally taught and inspire your students to explore new worlds of communication.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
