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No experience with SOS, but as an alternative or a follow up, have you looked at Homeschool Spanish Academy?  My son had great success going that route.  Live teacher via skype, based in Guatamala, not very expensive.  I highly recommend them.

 

HomeschoolSpanishAcademy.com

 

 

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I'm leaning heavily to using SOS Spanish for my high-schooler.  However, we need 3 years of spanish, not just 2.  Any thought on what we could use after completing SOS?

 

Also have any of you had good success with using SOS spanish for high school?

 

Do a search for Jean in Wisc's posts on SOS for Spanish for high school.  She put out a lot of good information on Spanish study with this.  You could pm her, too.  I saw that she posted recently, so she probably still checks in here periodically and would see a pm.

 

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Do a search for Jean in Wisc's posts on SOS for Spanish for high school.  She put out a lot of good information on Spanish study with this.  You could pm her, too.  I saw that she posted recently, so she probably still checks in here periodically and would see a pm.

 

Thanks for the heads up, Colleen!

 

I talked to SOS folks once-upon-a time (seems like years ago. LOL!).  They suggested using Secondary Spanish as year 1, Spanish I as year 2, and Spanish II as year 3. If you do all 3 of these and add some reading and writing, I would say your child will cover everything (and more) than most 4 year high school Spanish programs .

 

On the transcript, I'd suggest you call them Spanish I, II, and III (not secondary, I and II). This is also what SOS suggested.

 

Jean

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We have used SOS for Spanish using secondary, Spanish I and Spanish II.  By the time we hit Spanish II just about everything is multiple choice because there is no way for a non-Spanish speaking person like myself to grade it.  Even on Spanish I there was a lot I couldn't grade. I had three years of Spanish in high school but that was a long time ago. The projects that are assigned are tough to do also if there is not a Spanish speaking person to help.  I asked Alpha Omega about this at a convention and they didn't have any advice.  All the parents around when I asked the question said they just skipped the projects too.  My kids also found the program to be on the juvenile side.    My sons did switch out half way through Spanish i to Duolingo.  He has put in about 50 mins. a day with Duolingo and has far surpassed in my opinion his sister who is just finishing up SOS Spanish II.  If I had it to do over again, I think I would look for a different program than SOS Spanish preferably one where my kids could get some time speaking with a Spanish speaking person.

 

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I only have a minute.

My kids have to have 2 years of a foreign language....we're doing Spanish.  With my oldest we used our home school cover with a native Spanish speaking teacher.  She used Alpha Omega.  This was ok, but I want to do something different with my other two.

 

The biggest problem, as the above poster mentioned, is teaching and grading assignments as a non-Spanish speaker. To overcome this problem, I began looking for something that would self-teach.  I wish I could give proper credit, but I can't recall the poster who had this plan.... It is what we are most likely going to end up doing:

 

Spanish I:

Madrigal's Key to Spanish Success (found on Amazon)

Visual Link Spanish

Spanish TV programs/movies in Spanish.... anything he is familiar with that will give him an opportunity to hear the language.

 

Spanish II:

Visual Link Spanish

Practice Makes Perfect:  2 books:  Verbs and Prepositions/Pronouns

Spanish TV programs/movies in Spanish

 

I hope that before we finish Spanish I and II that we can find someone to converse with my student to give him one-on-one practice with the language.

 

Although we don't have to have a Spanish III, Visual Link Spanish does have more than two years' worth of material.  Other popular programs include Destinos and several on-line options.  You can do a search.  Maybe even start a new thread asking specifically for Spanish 3 curriculum.

 

I wanted to use the same kinds of books for Spanish I and II so that the courses would flow together.  Using materials that are more self-taught takes the need for a Spanish teacher out of the way.  

 

I hope this gets us through Spanish I and II.  

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