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Episode 52: Teaching a Foreign Language that You Don't Speak Yourself
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Episode 52: Teaching a Foreign Language that You Don't Speak Yourself
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36 minutes
Released:
Oct 28, 2016
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This week's Charlotte Mason podcast focuses again on foreign language. Enjoy this interview with Dr. Jennifer Spencer, whose wealth of experience in the realm of language taught the Charlotte Mason way will inspire and encourage you to plunge in and stop depriving your children of this dish in the delectable feast. Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Internet Explorer 9, Firefox, Chrome "The initial idea, that we must acquire a new language as a child acquires his mother tongue, is absolutely right, whether the attempt to follow this idea out by analysing a language into a certain number, say fifteen, exhaustive 'series,' be right or not." (Vol. 1, p. 302) "The method of teaching may be varied, partly because that recommended by M. Gouin requires a perfect command of the French tongue, and teachers who are diffident find a conversational method founded on book and picture easier to work and perhaps as effectual––more so, some people think; but, be this as it may, it is to M. Gouin we owe the fundamental idea." (Vol. 1, p. 306) Charlotte Mason Institute Cherrydale Press (Gouin series books)
Released:
Oct 28, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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