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For teaching Chinese I came to know of this site (from this forum only) http://www.winktolearn.com/. Have bought the DVD's. They have flash cards + songs DVD. Yet to start it though. U can try the sample lessons. There's also a similar thread.

Great effort texaslady...would also be keen to know how u schedule n manage as currently I'm also in midst of planning the routine for my lil one.

Another thing which i've been planning is to take up worldspace radio...u get music in different languages (mostly Indian languages but have french, arabic and german), classical music as well. It's a great source but currently postponed it due to already so much to manage. http://www.1worldspace.com/

Thanks everyone for ur inputs specially the files / uploads in foreign languages.

[milovelu]

Thank fatima786 for this great post. My daughter told me that she wanted to learn Japanese for quite a while. Since we don't speak Japanese, the best way I thought about was sending her to Japanese preschool. Unfortunately we are not able to afford that.

So, thank you all for the great links and ideas. They really give me HOPE now. To start, we are going to let our daughter use Rosetta Stone (Thanks Texaslady2 for bringing this up) to learn Japanese.

You ladies are the BEST!!!

By the way, to learn Chinese, some of you may find the following link useful.
http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/lang/basic/ch_cards/01/INDEX2.HTM

[MaluMeena]

Hi I am planning to quit my job when i join back after my pregnancy leave.

I was planning on becoming a full time mother but did not know what & where to start but after having a look at the different things which i can teach my child i am sure both me & my kid are going to have wonderful time learning.

Thanks for the website.

[Ayesha Nicole]

I found this cool site which emerses you in several foreign languages http://www.hello-world.com/.

Here is another site that has nursery rhyme in english, french and german. They are looking for translators for all the languages. http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/

Dear Patreiche & All,

I just saw this post and was sooo happy to find Arabic on the hello-world.com site!  Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Ayesha

[patience]

Thanks for all of the links!!

I am lucky to have native speakers in all of the languages I am teaching my son and they have been sooo helpful. I have always been good at learning different languages, but just didn't do enough to become fluent in any of them. I am hoping things will be different for my son, but if not I am comfortable knowing that I have laid a foundation and if he chooses to learn a language later in life he can go back to all that I taught him  

The  that keeps me motivated is his interest and although he does it when he feels like it he had shown me that me can read flashcards in all of the languages:)


Good luck!

[Ayesha Nicole]

Dear Patience & Everyone,

For Arabic/English sets, please find the newly uploaded activity sheets/.pdf/.ppt/e-books here:

http://forum.brillkids.com/downloads/?sa=myfiles;u=11707


Rima also recently uploaded some Arabic .ppt files that will be useful with the pronunciations being from the Egyptian dialect:

http://forum.brillkids.com/downloads/?cat=135

Your son is fortunate that you are teaching him so many languages!  I can only handle English and Arabic with my husband's help. 

Happy Teaching!
Ayesha

[wenjonggal]

I am a single self-employed mom, so I sympathise with time constraints. The funny thing is, I use this to my advantage with the languages: I don't think my son even knows that Dora the Explorer comes in a language other than Mandarin(with English where the English has Spanish).

My son is 3, and was adopted from China. I had just done a wee bit of self-taught mandarin when I brought him home at 22 mos. He was just babybabbling, not speaking, and I don't think he had ever seen ANY book before that.
So he had to learn English, French (we are here in Quebec, both of which I speak quite well) and I am trying to keep up Chinese. So I got Little Pim (excellent), Baby Learns Chinese, EarlyStart (BaoBei the Panda), Sing and Learn with Mei Mei. I swear I learn more from these little kid dvds than i do from adult lessons! (most from childbook.com, some from amazon)

For English, I used Baby Signing Time and SigningTime, which of course taught him signing as well... again, I learned while he did.

When I found that the baby/toddler dvds were repetitive, I searched online and found his fave series: Bob the Builder and Dora the Explorer in Mandarin (ebay, and bogeji.com )

Anyways, he begs to watch these things, and I put them on while I am cooking meals, cleaning, and if I need to catch a little bit of shuteye after working all night. If you can hear or see them while cooking etc, you'll learn too. So, funnily enough the same thing I use to occupy him when I don't have time is what he learns the other language from.

I'll often sing little songs I got from the dvds while pushing him in the stroller, or point out things or quiz vocab while walking the dog with him... really, we are learning the SAME vocab at the same time.

Also, funnily enough, a contractor who worked at our place had a girlfriend from Beijing, and I pay her $20 to come for an hour or so once a week to speak to both of us. I learn practical phrases like " Baobao ying gai niao niao" "Baby must peepee" from her! And he hears a native speaker. Again, she comes to our home, and I do things like give him his bath, cook supper etc, and she says what I am doing, and I and he repeat it. So it doesn't take a lot of extra time. She has become a friend and my son is excited to learn Chinese since she speaks it and so does Dora the Explorer! LOL!

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