French

Why do kids tend to choose a foreign language that you have zilch experience with?  Yep, that would be French.  I can NOT pronounce it ... at ... all.  I bought Le Francais Facil (The Easy French) for 13yodd and thankfully she has been exploring it on her own.  In order to get something out of it, it is time to do more of the program.

The Easy French

She has been listening to and parroting the story, going through the vocabulary along with the CD, and practicing the phonograms with the CD (10/36 lessons).  The plan now is to switch to the independent learner track and do it over two years.  That will be one lesson every two weeks.  And, it means more involvement from me.  I'll have to read through each lesson to find out what she should be working on and then make reasonable assignments.

I'll also plan to have her use Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative French course to help with auditory exposure.

Another possible resource: TV5MONDE