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07-23-2017, 04:45 PM | #1 |
Rose Garden
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High School Spanish or French
My DD must start her foreign language credits this year.
She really wants to learn French, but I am thinking Spanish. We can't afford to take her to a class, time or money-wise, so she has to do it at home. I took Spanish and while I can't really speak, I still remember quite a bit when I see it on paper, so I can help her. Where can I find a good homeschool Spanish curriculum for high school credit?
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07-23-2017, 05:11 PM | #2 |
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High School Spanish or French
Just curious- why do you want her to take Spanish if she wants to take French?
Can she take it at a local community college? ETA: sorry just saw that you need her to take it at home. I don't know if a good accredited homeschool curriculum but hope others can help! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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07-23-2017, 05:25 PM | #3 | |
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Re: High School Spanish or French
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Also, if someone is planning to attend college, it has the least economic benefit - generally the more common the language, the less $ worth (IOW it has great benefit if the objective is to manage the local McDonald's...far less if the objective is to get a job involving a second language in the corporate world..there Spanish has less value than Chinese or Urdu, for example) . If you are going to do Rosetta Stone, for example, all languages are the same price, so why not explore the many choices available? Muzzy is often available through libraries for free.
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07-23-2017, 05:47 PM | #4 |
Rose Garden
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Re: High School Spanish or French
There are many foreign language threads around here. My children didn't like Rosetta Stone and didn't learn very much from the curriculum
I personally go with what holds interest for my children vs what is best language to pursue. Mine have done Italian, Spanish and sign language so far. As far as economic value, I wish all my kids would do Spanish because here being bilingual in Spanish greatly improves your salary in many industries. But I still go with what they are interested in.
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07-23-2017, 05:52 PM | #5 |
Rose Garden
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Re: High School Spanish or French
We don't have time to "explore" at this time. She has two more years left of High School, and she needs two years of language. We tried another language, and she couldn't finish it.
I can help her with Spanish. I can't help her with other languages. She is not going to pick up a language easily, so I really need something I know. I don't really have time to learn a new language. I have five kids I am homeschooling, a preschool age child at home, and a MIL that is staying with us that I need to help care for. I am not really worried about her needing to have a second language to be marketable in any of the fields she is looking into. And honestly, knowing her, she is not going to pick it up enough in two high school years to really be able to use it in real life later anyway. She might be able to do French. She is a ballet dancer, and so she knows a little, but I don't. I gave her the opportunity to learn French from some apps and a schoolhouse teachers.com class, but she didn't really do it, so now I need to just make sure she does it and gets her credits so she can graduate, KWIM? Is Muzzy a high school class?? I remember seeing it when she was little.
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07-23-2017, 06:00 PM | #6 |
Rose Garden
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Re: High School Spanish or French
you sound frustrated and I apologize if my reply wasn't what u were hoping for.
Most homeschoolers I know who don't do outside classes for foreign languages use Rosetta Stone, mango languages, or apps. We have used mostly apps after hating Rosetta Stone but we have IRL support for our app usage.
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07-23-2017, 06:08 PM | #7 | |
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Re: High School Spanish or French
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How do you get high school credit for an app? Are they classes?
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