Thirty Days of Thanks...

Homeschooling brings lots of challenges. One of them is teaching a foreign language adequately. My "thankful thing" today is the help I've found teaching foreign language. Here is our Rosetta Stone package for Mandarin (Chinese). Luci and I will start that after Christmas. The boys are currently studying Spanish (Latin America). We have the homeschool version of both, which keeps track of scores so I don't have to do that. I love the programs. They are fun. It is almost painless learning!
We also have the Muzzy language DVDs for Luci. They are cute, but not as highly polished as the Rosetta Stone. I watch them with her, with the closed caption turned on so I can translate. They must work because the other day, as we were watching, I was almost asleep and Luci asked me what "(a phrase I can't recall right now)" meant and I said (without even thinking), "It means, 'Where are you?'" and I was right!

We also have several of the Mei Mei DVDs. I like them a lot. Mei Mei sings songs, carries on short conversations with school children, and shows what life is like in some Chinese locations. I just found Vol 7 on amazon.com. It is a trip to Dawei village in Anhui province. I am going to make sure that Santa brings that for Luci. Another of these Mei Mei DVDs taught Luci names for parts of the body. She uses those Mandarin words in casual conversation.