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Language Learning in the Home
If you've made the decision to educate your child at home, Bridge Books can be a powerful partner in your effort to help your child learn a second or third language, especially if you do not speak that language yourself.
Bridge Books can help you capitalize on the opportunities that you were looking for when you decided to homeschool. We offer an approach that can be tailored to the u
nique needs of individual children, and the Bridge Books curriculum is designed to apply to real-world concepts that your child will be able to converse about as part of their everyday experience. Imagine sitting down to lunch after a morning of study and discussing what you are learning in math or in your fine arts study, only the family dinner table discussion is conducted in French or German! Bridge Books makes it possible.
- Learn at your own pace: You child's foreign language acquisition can move forward at a self-determined pace.
- Learn a language even if the "instructor" doesn't speak it: Your child can learn to speak Arabic or Chinese or Spanish even if you don't. In fact, part of the fun is that you will have an opportunity to learn right along with them.
- Assistance from native speakers: Each Bridge Books Series includes a CD, so that your child can learn vocabulary, inflections and tones from native speakers.
- Diversity: Learning a new language will open doors to worlds of new opportunities to communicate with and learn from (and about) people
- Ease of scheduling: Bridge Books are portable and can go with you wherever and whenever the learning is happening. In addition, because the books are sequentially-based, you can schedule language study whenever it fits into your own schedule.
- On-Site Learning: Learn from home with simple-to-use tools
- Integrate Learning into Everyday Experience: The Bridge Books Curriculum is designed around a "learning" vocabulary that will dovetail the other subjects your child will be studying-everything from math to art to social knowledge.
- Parents learn too: Bridge Books can make it feasible for the whole family to learn a new language together.