If you can afford it DO IT. 
First hand interaction is great... I recently approached an immigration center and posted an ad on the board for a native foriegn language family to have a play date... KIds playing side by side they pick things up even if its not a formal class... My two year old in one day learned how to say my turn and MINE in Vitnamese and in Spanish.

I find that immigrants that respond to the ad are very receptive to a playdate, the kids have fun, and usually I get some great new recipes first hand.

Wow! Talk about a great, creative idea. I like it! I wish I lived in a town that had an immigration office 

Regarding Ethanmama question, there are products already done, like Little Pim and Wink to Learn mandarin, but definetly I agree with Mandi, if you can afford the classes go for them.

I just wanted to through this out there...One of my friends told me that when her kids do not behave she tells them "I love you, but I didn't love what you did". I thought it was kind of clever. Of course this goes along with the full lesson, but that way they know that even though you are escolting them you love them and the fact you may not be the niecest at that moment it doesn't mean you don't love them anymore.

KL,

Could you please give us an idea (if you know) of how you guys are thinking to handle the translations? There are many people interested here in translating to languages that we are teaching our children, so I'm very excited about it, but would like to have some time frame. As we all know time is priceless 

PS. Hopping someone will volunteer to translated into Simplified Chinese , someone? 

Martina,

I think that even though you saved the presentation as a pp 97-2003 when you "Save As" and choose "Slide Show" it automaticly saves it in the version of your pp, in this case 2007. Do I make sense? So in order to open the file with a pp 97-2003 it needs to be shared as a presentation and not as a slide show. Once the person has saved the file, she/he can save it as a slide show.

This is what I have figured out so far, but someone may have a different solution.

Also, Martina, did you see my question?

Martina,

First of all, thank you for the files. They are great! I have been showing them to my daughter randomly. Is there any suggestion about how to show them? SHould I should the same one for a x number of times? Or just randomly?

Thanks!

You need to have power point 2007 in order to be able to open it.

Wow! This presentation is very good! Thank you so much fro sharing it.

Skylark,

PS. Since you liked it too, you can rate it where the stars are 

Martina,

Thank you so much for all the files, for LR and the pp. I love them! Now, I would like to create one with my mother-in-law singing in the background. Do you know how I can crate it with the photoplay file you did in pp, but in LR? or how I can add te song in the background of the pp while the slides are changing?

Thanks in advance!

Joha, what kind of color games do you do? Will be interesting to know!

We have these color blocks (cubes), so I put three blocks right in front of her and ask her "where is the blue box Valerie?" and she grabs the box. When she does it right, that is most of the time, I hug her, tell her what a good job and we laugh, it is so much fun! When she gets it wrong I just show her which one is the right one and tell her what is the color of the one she picked. I have tried with letters, but she gets so excited about grabbing a letter and putting in her mouth that she doesn't really pay attention to my question    Or I'm not sure if they are too small for her. Anyways the blocks work for us for now.

You are wecome! I'm sure you will find some unique item for Catalina's room 

Hello ecotina!

Welcome to the forum! I totally how you feel about theaching several languages at the same time and you just need to do what works for you time wise. I have posted this before, but I'm not sure where. We are teaching our daughter English and Spanish (our native languages) and exposing her to Mandarin and German. I do most of her materials in English because they are easier to find. I have translated some into Spanish and talk to her most of the time in Spanish. Monday and Wednesday are German days and Tuesdays and Thursdays are Mandarin days. What PY said is the most important point when raising a bilingual or multilingual child: "Not mixing languages". These are some threads that may be helpful:

http://forum.brillkids.com/teaching-your-child-signing-speaking-foreign-languages/teaching-language-e-mail-from-doman's-institute/
http://forum.brillkids.com/teaching-your-child-signing-speaking-foreign-languages/does-anyone-know-what-flash-card-method-to-use-when-teaching-two-languages/

Please let us know if you have any otehr questions!

Ok, then Woodetta will not work for us either. Again, what my friends did ws not hitting,it was more related to what the wood spoon ment. I just need to find out how it really works, so we don't keep especulating.

Amen nhockaday! I totally agree.

Joha, my mom used a wooden spoon to spank my younger sisters if they were very bad. She called the spoon "Woodetta". It was kind of a little joke name that we made up for it. If they were being bad, my mom would threaten, "I'm going to get Woodetta", and they would normally stop misbehaving.

Wow! I want to know more about "Woodetta"! Could you please how your mom implemented it? Meaning how she explained to them that it was a way to "punish" them when they didn't behave well.

I found this discussion about "wisdom stick" on the "mothering" forum
https://www.mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=838824

Thank you for the link. I'm not sure if you read i, but it was ful of people with opinions without knowing what it is. 

Ok, let me just explain what I know so there are not missunderstandings here. One of our friends used a wood kitchen spoon and they called it the "wisdom stick". When their girl didn't behave well they will just touch her with the "wisdom stick" and that meant she wasn't behaving well. I'll call my friend to find out the details and how it worked and share it. I was wondering is someone else had used it or hear about it.

[May I suggest you finish math in your first language – then teach the second"]

In order to get this e-mail I had sent two messages through two different links in their website. The one I posted originally was the first one I got, but yesterday I got an e-mail from Katie Doman:

"Please forgive such a late response to your letter concerning the programs introduced by Glenn Doman. It is always a pleasure to hear from enthusiastic mothers eager to teach their babies.

   Our mothers and fathers, here at The Institutes, begin teaching their babies reading, math, and bits of intelligence, at least one other language, (reading also), music and swimming in the first year of life. They do so with love and understanding, have a wonderful time together and establish a remarkable relationship.

   May I suggest you finish math in your first language – then teach the second".

  I have to be honest, I was dissapointed by the fact I got two complety different answers from the same institute.    I e-mailed her back with the first e-mail I had gotten, so she can clarify. I'll let you as soon as I hear back from her.

Now, personally, once I got the first e-mail I tried to do one session in Spanish and the other two in English, but it didn't feel right. I know we are teaching math and not reading, but we are giving a name to the image they are seeing. So I have been doing all the sessions in English. In conclusion, I want to hear wnat Katie Doman has to said about clarifying, but I think her e-mail makes more sense to me than the first one I got. I'm going to finish all the program in English and then go over the numbers is Spanish because she will know the math part so the answer will be the same math wise.

Hi Joha,

Oh! They not meant for flashing? But giving it to the baby to play, won't she put it in her mouth and try to lick or chew on it? Haha.. 

I'm sorry I hadn't seen your post. Yeap, that is right. My daughter didn't put them in her mouth becuase she was on her belly and I'll put them in front of her. She didn't have the strenght to pick herself up, grab it and put it in her mouth at that age. She used to just touch them and look at them