Homeschool Resources: Typing & Foreign Language

Good morning, how are you? This morning I wanted to bring you our series sharing Homeschool Resources: Typing and Foreign Languages. I think I will take both of these classes with Charlie this way we can learn a new Language and practice typing the words we learn. Would you like to join us?

Type to Learn

The creators of Type to Learn have gone to extraordinary lengths to make typing instruction fun, as well as pedagogically sound. Type to Learn’s game-based typing methodology engages all learners while promoting, assessing, and recording each student’s level of mastery. An annual subscription is only $39.95 and is good for up to 3 students.

Polly Lingual– Grades 6-12, with parental supervision

With this commercial website, visitors can use the free lessons to learn basic foreign language skills.
While some of the lessons are for paid members only, indicated by the Polly Lingual icon, there is still a lot of great material available for free on this site, especially in the Beginner sections. Language choices include:

• French
• Spanish
• English
• Italian
• German
• Portuguese
• Hebrew
• Arabic
• Russian
• Chinese
• Japanese
• Korean
• Dutch

Lessons can include vocabulary audios, grammar instructions, interactive games such as Memorama, Alphabet Soup (word searches), Whack-a-Word, and Hangman as well as additional downloadable worksheets. There is a Verb Conjugation Trainer tool to brush up on verb conjugations as well as interactive maps showing locations a language is spoken which also provides some additional information about that location.
Even if visitors may need to search for the free material, there are some great teaching opportunities available on this site that might make checking it out worthwhile.

Thank you,

Glenda, Charlie and David Cates