mazakaal Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 My dd will be in 5th grade next year, and I'm pretty well decided on her curriculum for everything except Spanish. She did Getting Started With Spanish in 3rd grade, following along with her older brother, but it was a bit much and she doesn't remember a lot of it. This year I wanted to go with something a bit lighter and more fun, so we're doing La Clase Divertida, which has turned out to be a bit too light. She's just learning alphabet, colors, parts of the body, and animals. I'd like to find some sort of happy medium for next year. I want something that she will enjoy, won't be too textbooky or schoolish, because we're really only doing Spanish at her request. If it had been up to me, I would have waited until middle school to start her in another language since we're already doing Latin. But I want something that will actually teach some conversation, not just a few words. Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shmily Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Have you checked out The Learnables? My kids are too young still to use it, but from their demos it looks like it would be pretty good. Just throwing an option your way... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halcyon Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 We're looking at tobreak.com Breaking the Barrier has gotten good reviews here, and it looks challenging. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mazakaal Posted February 28, 2012 Author Share Posted February 28, 2012 I thought the Learnables and Breaking the Barrier were geared more towards older students. I remember considering BtB when I looked at Visual Link Spanish for ds. Saying that, maybe I could just have her do VL. Hmmmm something to think about. Has anyone used VL with someone as young as 10yo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halcyon Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 I thought the Learnables and Breaking the Barrier were geared more towards older students. I remember considering BtB when I looked at Visual Link Spanish for ds. Saying that, maybe I could just have her do VL. Hmmmm something to think about. Has anyone used VL with someone as young as 10yo? BtB is for older students, but some of this board have used it with success with a language-oriented younger. I don't know much about VL. What about Espanol para chiquitos y grandes? That's another one we're considering here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazakaal Posted March 1, 2012 Author Share Posted March 1, 2012 I had never heard of that. I'll check it out. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktgrok Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Spanish for Children? Mango? Switched on Schoolhouse? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazakaal Posted March 1, 2012 Author Share Posted March 1, 2012 I've seen some reviews of SFC that say that it's dry. Have you used it? Did you find this to be the case? I've never heard of Mango, but when I google searched, it looked like something geared for adults. I thought SOS had only a high school Spanish program, but on searching found an elementary program. This looks good with games and puzzles, etc to make it fun. I wasn't impressed with SOS grade 7 materials that I tried with my oldest several years back, so I'm a bit reticent to buy anything from them again, though. Have you used this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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