When my daughter was approaching her fifth birthday, she begged to learn Chinese. At the time, I really struggled to find resources that were geared to non-native speakers. I was recently provided a copy of A Little Mandarin – a music CD of Chinese Children’s Classics – in exchange for my honest review. I wish that I had known of A Little Mandarin when we
Latin Alive!
Quite some time ago now I was sent the Latin Alive! programme from Classical Academic Press. I was really excited to try out this programme because a certain young man decided that same week it was offered up that he really wanted to learn Latin. When the products arrived I actually started to get a little weak in the knees as I hadn’t realized the
Lively Latin
Lively Latin or, The Big Book as it is called, covers all the elements of a first year elementary Latin program in a fun and engaging way. These elements include: 1st and 2nd declension Latin nouns in their cases, and genders, the use of the nominative and ablative cases; 1st conjugation verbs in the present, imperfect, and future tenses; the irregular to be verb in
Prima Latina – Latin review
Prima Latina with DVD’s I got this for my 2nd grader, a handful of years ago. It was my first introduction to Latin and I remember being very pleased with the amount of vocabulary and Latin prayers etc. We worked through several lessons, and then I decided to only work on the vocabulary portion because he didn’t have great handwriting at the time to complete
Elementary Greek
Elementary Greek , year one, by Open Texture is designed to be used for as young as second grade. It is a full year’s course and is written simply for the teacher with little to no experience in the Greek language. It’s 30 weeks of lessons are laid out in daily portions that take around 20 minutes on average. Each child needs their own workbook