Please explain to me how you use the app to get the most benefit from it. What role does Duolingo play in your foreign language studies? How much time do you/your kid spend with the app each day? How do you monitor and measure progress in the language? If you've tried other language learning website or apps then why did you choose Duolingo over them? Do you feel that having high intensity days mixed with low intensity days is beneficial and if so what is the sweet-spot you have found through trial and error? What do you feel is the greatest weakness of the program, and how do you compensate for that weakness​? Which areas of language have you found Duolingo to be most helpful for? What advice do you have for a person considering​ the program?

Languages like Welsh are going to be best learned by amassing a cache of resources. I doubt many QUALITY resources that fit your needs exist. Use YouTube to find videos on how to read Welsh. I've found d full course s on the phonics of Spanish, French and German the past and scene several others. You may only be able to find ABC videos for a while. Find users who post Welsh videos and write to them from help. Somewhere​ there is a Welsh popstar. Your job is to find his or her music and acquire at least 10hrs worth of Welsh music from lullabies and folk songs and a healthy dose of modern 2000-to present music The Welsh government has some things on their website and links to Welsh Children's shows. http://www.meithrin.cymru/welsh-for-the-family/c58/ Is a group that has a lot if Welsh for family type resources. I think Teach Yourself Welsh and Teach Yourself Welsh Grammar both have audio CDs for pronunciation help.

The Number Devil is a German Book that was translated. Maybe that will be helpful to you in perhaps finding it via a library or ordering from the UK. My kid liked it a lot. It's a sort of survey of math topics.

My kid liked the book The Story of Chess. It's a picture book and helps kids memorize and visualize the moves and role of each piece. If you already know how the pieces move then it's just a story book about chess. Alex and the Wednesday Chess Club is a book about a kid who has always liked chess. Until he loses a game and how he bounces back to playing chess again. There is a documentary about Susan Polgar, but the name of it escapes me. I think it is an episode of a British show about extraordinary people, maybe not a typical documentary.

Magnus is a documentary about Magnus Carlsen Knights of the South Bronx is a TV film about David MacEnulty a teacher who taught chess to his students. Life of a King is a movie based on the true story about an​ ex-con who uses Chess as a way to help inner city kids avoid gangs and what not. You need to do your due diligence and see which films are suitable for your kid.

I don't understand what you are asking for.

We've found studying a language directly to be the best way to learn it. We did a vocabulary program that was centered around roots/prefixes/suffixes. My kids also had a very good vocabulary program in their school. They've been able to make plenty of connections between English and Spanish with out any extra special efforts from me.

I agree. If you want your child to READ Latin, then study Latin directly. If not, there are a dozen ways to get the "other" benefits of Latin more directly and efficiently. Personally I have never been able to get behind the idea that there are benefits unique to Latin outside of the ability to read/write/speak Latin.

In the past, I've spent hours on their site and combed the internet for reviews, videos etc. I've read every article about the program, and watched a couple of videos but I don't find them to be the kind of informative that helps me understand the program to know if it's a good fit for my kid, or a good use of my money. There are no course descriptions or samples of the materials or a scope and sequence to let me know what they are doing. I don't know. I feel like the things I've found (articles, videos) constantly talk AROUND the program, instead of directly stating what they do and what steps/milestones they take, etc.

I'm also interested in them and find the lack of info about them and their courses a little discouraging. My kids school participated in an online math competition that they had and my youngest scored internationally competitive for his grade/age range. My eldest scored nationally competitive. I'm very vaguely thinking of putting them in the online classes, but the lack of info about them is a HUGE turn off for me.

In your shoes, is it plausible to re-do the key lessons from MM1 with manipulatives at an accelerated pace over the summer. Require only 1/4 or 1/3 of the answers be recorded in writing. Sit with him and do the math with blocks/orally each time. Essentially, 1st grade math is nothing but number bonds and place value. You can find a zillion games online to print that will reinforce the concepts, but no matter which publisher you go with, those are the "main topics" of 1st grade math. If it's possbile, I would just re-do MM1 with a greater emphasis on the manipulatives and more involvement from the parent. Be sure to work on the Part-Part-Whole concept and re-do each word problem using drawings and manipulatives. Number bonds and place value. Then move on to MM2.

HOW did he use MM1? Were you with him the majority of the time, reading the lessons with/to him and leading the lessons? I've used every chapter of MM1-7 with my kids. A big part of what made it successful was my close interaction and engagement with them as they used the book. It is a work text, but having an adult keeping things on track and answering questions immediately and correcting mistakes real time is what made the program effective.

Do you have a set with an instructors solutions manual?

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