Foreign Language Success for Any Age: Adelaide Olguin of TalkBox.Mom
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Show Notes
Adelaide Olguin from TalkBox.Mom discusses foreign language success as a homeschool family, how it's never too early to educate. She also outlines common pitfalls that can stop you from learning languages easily.
-Defining success in a foreign language: when everyone in your family is using it throughout the day to get things done [2:00]
-The problem of starting with numbers, letters, and colors [4:40]
-Natural language progression and how babies learn a language [7:05]
-Tips on how to acquire language the way Charlotte Mason described as "living speech" [10:40]
-How fluency is a path, a way of life, as opposed to a destination [12:00]
-Pitfall #1: Expecting perfection [15:00]
-Pitfall #2: Vocabulary lists [16:30]
-Pitfall #3: Emphasizing mistakes [17:10]
-Pitfall #4: Stressful deadlines [18:20]
-Pitfall $5: Building the language, not extracting it [19:30]
-Further details about the April 4-5 conference [20:40]
-Live Q&A from the audience: Can students learn more than one language at the same time? [21:20]
Resource #1 - Upcoming MPE homeschool conference & curriculum fair: https://midwesthomeschoolers.org/events/homeschool-conference/
Resource #2 - TalkBox.Mom: https://talkbox.mom/
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