This is a contribution from a guest writer, Karen Schweitzer who writes Guideto Business School at About.com.
Are you looking for a free way to teach kids foreign languages? The Internet has some of the best resources available for absolutely no cost. There are online games, flashcards, tools, videos, and many more resources that are great for parents, teachers, and students. Here are 15 free foreign language learning resources to try today.
Apples 4 the Teacher -
Within this site, you will find free foreign language activities for elementary students and interactive learning games for Spanish, Polish, Gaelic, and American sign language.
LanguagEGames.org
Provides free learning games for English, French, Spanish, Italian, and German. Games include crosswords, hangman, and word searches.
The Internet Picture Dictionary
Picture Dictionary provides pictures to assist with language learning. Through this site, you can learn Spanish, Italian, German, and French words for an assortment of categories.
Foreign Language Fun
Foreign Language Fun is weblog loaded with free resources to teach children French and Spanish. Within this blog, you can find language videos, games, lesson plans, and downloads. Not all of the downloads are free, but no-cost items are clearly marked.
Transparent Language
This free language learning site offers games and activities that can be used by younger students to practice and learn languages. Games include Wordseek, Plug-n-Play, Unscramble, and International Cafe.
Learn 4 Good
Learn 4 Good’s Kids’ Corner provides free Spanish lessons just for kids. The lessons cover colors, numbers, verbs, survival, and restaurant scenarios.
Kids Online Resources
Kids Online Resources features a wide variety of language lessons and tools that can be used for K-8 graders to learn and practice a new language. Just a few of the resources you can find on this page are Spanish games, a Japanese number chart, and French language activities.
123TeachMe
Spanish for Kids from 123TeachMe features fun, free ways for children to learn and practice Spanish. throughout this site, you will find games and activities for alphabet, numbers, colors, family, days, holidays, and more.
LiteracyCenter.Net
The LiteracyCenter.Net provides language games for learning Spanish, German, and French. The games and activities cover letters, shapes, writing, works, numbers, and colors.
Wikijunior
Wikijunior offers a free online languages book for children 8-12. This book provides a basic introduction to languages around the world. The basic concept of this book is to offer younger children some language skills while introducing the idea of other languages around the world.
LingvoSoftOnline
LingvoSoft features free online flashcards that kids can use to learn thousands of foreign words in a fun way. The site also offers free dictionaries, phrasebooks, and other learning resources.
Lang-8
This free online language community provides a place for older kids to connect with each other while practicing languages. Users write in the languages they are studying and are corrected by native speakers.
Digital Dialects
Digital Dialects features free, easy-to-use interactive games and flashcards for teaching over 50 languages to children. Covered subjects include numbers, colors, food, vocabulary, greeting, phrases, and more.
Babbel
Babbel is a free, fun way to learn languages using pictures, videos, sound, and interactive elements. Kids can
use Babel to learn Spanish, French, Italian, English, and German.
Nanduti
Nanduti is a foreign language learning site designed for kids preK-8. This site discusses the benefits of early language learning, program development, teaching resources, and professional development.
Education writer: Karen Schweitzer who writes for Guideto Business School at About.com. She also writes for OnlineCollege.org
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