"Believing as we do now, that children should learn a foreign language as they learn their mother tongue -- they speak it long before they learn to read or write -- we endeavor to give the little ones while still in the nursery a joyous and interesting oral introduction, by means of games, songs, and stories to the future study of the language as read and written."
Nursery French by Frances Epps,
Parents Review, Volume 1, pg 269
"Picture lessons, songs and actions, and games (these last very sparingly, as children soon think it very much beneath them to play at lessons, they are quick to feel the pleasure of dignity of work) -- these all help to practice the ear and tongue, the eye unconsciously helping to bring about the association between the idea and the sounded word. "
"Picture lessons are very good for this oral work, but they want to be treated skillfully...For small classes the coloured plates of Christmas numbers of the illustrated papers often serve very well if judiciously selected -- scenes that illustrate home-life, with children, dollies, animals, and so on."
Clara L. Daniell
Parents Review, Volume 14, no 11. pg. 808-814
A Few Resources to Help:
- The Parents' Review: Volume 14, no. 11, pg. 808-814, When and How to Begin Modern Languages by Clara L. Daniell
- French & Spanish Resources from AmblesideOnline.org
- DuoLingo, an app
- Learnables, a website that focuses on oral learning first
- Teaching Foreign Language, Simply Charlotte Mason, an article
- Foreign Languages with Charlotte Mason & Friends Part 1, Charlotte Mason Soiree, an article
- Mason's Living Languages, a website; Mason's Scope & Sequence [learning through the years], an article
- Foreign Language, by Amblesideonline.org, an Article
- Charlotte Mason's Foreign Language Lessons for Early Years by My Little Robins
- Habit Training
- Other Occupations
- Out of Doors Life
- Oral Foreign Language Learning
- Games, Songs & Handicrafts
- Being Read To & Told Stories
- Tea Time
[I am constantly adding more resources, this entire endeavor is a work in progress. Be patient and check back often! Thanks!]
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