Have you thought of teaching your students a new language? If so I would like to invite you to check out our latest Homeschooling Resource UCLA Language Materials Project brought to you by ClickSchooling and the Homeschool Buyers Co-Op.
Charlie has always wanted to learn Spanish, this year we will be taking a beginners Spanish class. Then I decided to check out UCLA Language Materials Project to see if there were another language Charlie and I could learn together. After looking through the website we are going to try also take a class teaching us Swahili.
For Homeschool we will be researching the Country where Swahili is spoken in and learning about habits of the people at the same time. Then Charlie and I find pictures of things from that Country that we can us in our Art class. I will study and see if there are any online Virtual Field Trips we can attend to help us as we learn more about the Language and the Country.
UCLA Language Materials Project
Age Range: 5-18 (Grades K-12, with parental supervision)
The University of California Los Angeles offers this free archive of teaching resources including downloadable/printable lessons in pdf, audio files, video files, dictionaries, computer programs/software, games and more. To help learn vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing, and conversational language skills in over 100 less commonly taught languages such as:
- Afrikaans
- Arabic
- Cherokee
- Danish
- Estonian
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Indonesian
- Inuit
- Japanese
- Latvian
- Maori
- Navajo
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Samoan
- Tagalog
- Urdu
- Zulu
When you get to the site, you’ll see the K-12 Gateway that offers links to free resources online as well as to materials that are available from libraries and retailers. You’ll also find lesson plans and teaching tips designed for classroom teachers that presented in English that can be adapted to teach any other language as well.
Use the search engine at the top of the page to select:
- Language – Choose from over 100 possibilities.
- Material – Select the kind of learning tool you want to find, for example, textbook, picture book, audio, video, etc.
- Level – Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced
- Audience – Elementary, Secondary, Post-Secondary
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie, and David Cates
