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Education is a Process, Not a Destination
Aug. 16, 2007
Curriculum Picks 2007, Part II - Spanish
Resources:
Voces y Vistas
Rosetta Stone Spanish
The Complete Book of Spanish
This is probably the list that looks the most questionable at first glance. It works only because I have a decent background in Spanish through majoring in it.
Voces y Vistas is a high school textbook that's pretty darned decent. It was the textbook I used in middle school, and I'm using it in conjunction with conversation to teach the language. It works because we're going slowly and I can already speak Spanish. Ideally, I'd teach pure immersion, but that's a recipe for hysterical meltdowns here, so I'm not trying it. Instead, I'm trying the FSI "overlearning" method with a good deal of additional language exposure. We'll see how it goes. I got the book for all of $2.50 since it's now out of adoption. Most of the replacements are just this side of disastrous, so I'm glad to have it, 80s hairdos and all.
The main reason I'm using Rosetta Stone Spanish is that it's free and low stress. It will accustom DS to hearing different accents and will get him some vocab. This is extremely far from a complete course--after all three levels, a child would struggle in second semester college Spanish, for example. But it does have its place, even if I find the company's claims of its efficacy highly misleading at best and outright lies at worst.
The Complete Book of Spanish is pretty worthless for really teaching Spanish, but it has the virtue of being a workbook, and my kid loves workbooks. So to make Spanish more fun, I bought it. It was very cheap. |
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