Canadian French
Danish
IrishCan Language101.com be used by children? The short answer is definitely yes.
This article will give you a better understanding of how to use it for the children you hold tenderly in your heart.
For Children Who Can Read Well
Any child who is old enough to read and understand a newspaper should easily be able to learn a foreign language with our language program. Please make sure the child watches and understands the video directions.
Most of our study screens are organized like this. They show two translations of the foreign phrase. One translation is the meaning of the foreign phrase and another translation is an exact, word-for-word, literal translation of the foreign phrase into English. The exact literal translation won’t always make sense.
Part of your job as a parent or teacher is to make sure that the child understands that other languages have different word orders than English and that’s why we show a literal translation in addition to the meaning.
For Children Who Cannot Yet Read Well
Children who are not yet able to read a newspaper can also learn a foreign language with Language101.com. However, they will need more of your help. Here’s what we suggest.
If the child is too young to read well, have the child sit beside you. Read the meaning and the good translation to the child out loud and have him or her say the foreign language phrase out loud.
This will have the added benefit of improving the child’s reading skills in English while teaching him or her a foreign language. We suggest using two headsets to listen to the foreign language audio, one for you and one for the child. However, if you have a very quiet room and a good sound system, using speakers can be OK. Using speakers is not OK in a noisy room.
Go Fast
Remember that our program works much better the faster you go through the phrases. It’s very easy to spend too much time on the second phrase while you forget the first one, so remember to go fast. Try to take 15 seconds or less per phrase.
How Long to Study
We suggest study sessions that are 30 minutes long. Study sessions as short as 15 minutes will also be effective.
Ambitious students should probably limit their study sessions to one hour at a time. If a child wants to study for more than one hour, he or she should study in the morning and again in the afternoon.
Hi,
I’m interested in using language101.com to meet high school language requirements. Our family homeschools. We need French I and French II. Which levels of your program would we need to purchase? Once the purchase is made, how long are we allowed to access the website content – one year, two years, etc.? Is there any written work or specific grammar instruction that comes later, or is the main goal here only speaking French?
Thanks!
Jennifer Boudreaux
Hi Jennifer,
I’m guessing that you will have to pass a proficiency test, so I’d suggest buying our French 1, 2, and 3 package. Once you pay for it you can use it as long as you need to, however I suggest giving your family a deadline.
Our programs are specifically designed to help you learn to speak and understand your new language. It’s pretty easy to learn French grammar from a book, where we excel is with speaking and understanding.
Sincerely,
Brent
Can I use any smartphone with internet connection to study?
Most Android phones will work, and any phone that has a full version of Flash should work. However we suggest testing the free demo to make sure that works before buying a new phone. If the free demo works just fine then everything will work fine.
Brent
How long,approximately, will it take to learn? I’m 13 and I would like to learn French, but I’m not very persistent and i don’t have a lot of money. I’m hoping my parents will let me get this, but only if it works.
Celine -
Your learning curve is completely dependent on how much focused time you are willing to put towards learning French. Language101.com recommends 30 minutes daily to learn a new language. It takes appx 4-6 months at that rate to complete an entire language series. To help your parents and express a desire to learn French check out our scholarship page and apply if it sounds right for you!
https://language101.com/scholarships
Thomas
I live in southern CA in an area with a large population of spanish speakers and also where I work there are a large number of people that speak both spanish and english and sometimes not as much english and I’d like to be able to commnicate with them better. Also, sometimes if we’re in a group, they often start to speak spanish and I feel left out. I’d like to learn spanish to be able to converse with and understand native spanish speakers without having to take years of lessons. I will have spanish speakers that I can practice what I learn with. I told them that I want to learn. Will this program be able to accomplish that?
Renee -
It’s great that you want to learn a language to be more involved with the population you live with. Our Spanish program is designed with Mexico City dialect. It is the dialect spoken in most of the America’s and the surrounding islands. With this software you’ll be starting to understand and converse with your co-workers more and more every day! The benefit you will notice is that they will see you making an effort and you’ll begin to pick up words and phrases from them as well, compounding your learning efforts with very little effort at all!
Thomas
Hi Brent,just thinking why you do not have english in your 101 lession format for learning to speak english.there are millions of mexicans who would love to learn to speak english corectly and I am one of them.you do not know the number of mexican children that are learning to speak english with mexican teachers that do not have the corect pronunciation of the language an therefore they loose a very great part of learning a language corectly.I belive you are loosing a vast area of oportunity by not serving latin america with an english version of your lessions.as you can see I read and write english very well but I need your help to speak corectly without an accent.
Sagragario -
Thanks for asking! We are working on an English for Spanish speakers. In addition we intend to release a English for each of the foreign languages we offer. Although sounding like a seemingly simple task it actually takes quite a bit of time and effort to just reverse the translations. You can expect to see that sometime after we finish with Mandarin Chinese and Japanese for English speakers. I’ll be sure to send you an email when we can offer English to you!
Thomas
hey i want to learn japanese and im 15. im trying to participate in a japanese exchange this summer, where we are raising the money to go. and im taking japanese in school but if i miss any time its hard to make up what they learned. and i was hoping to get something that might help me not only make up what i have missed but just help me learn the language. i saw in one of the answers to the comments you said you are going to relese japanese. i was wondering when that would be, if you know. and aproxamitely how much it would cost,because i mean i would love to get something to help but if it is too expensive then i cant. thanks for taking time to read this and i hope to see a response from you soon.
Makalla -
Sounds like your drive to learn Japanese is a solid one! I’m sure you’ll have a great time in Japan with whatever level of language skills you are able to bring.
At this time our Japanese developments are not complete enough to release any lessons. I also cannot predict when the first of the lessons will be available to study. Our software is definitely a great companion for a formal grammar course. Not only will you be able to learn to write the language and pick apart its many aspects, you’ll learn to speak it faster once our lessons are ready!
Did you know that we have a scholarship program for students and others with low or fixed incomes? Check out this page for more information and apply if you feel it is right for you:
https://language101.com/scholarships
I’ll be sure to send you a message when Japanese is ready for you to start learning!
Thomas
I just finished reading Makalla’s comment on the status of your Japanese software. Will you please let me know as well when your software is ready? I almost bought the Rosetta Stone Japanese today because of their Valentine special. I’m glad I decided to do a little more research. I believe my library has Pimsleur’s Japanese on cd. I will start there and wait for you email? Thanks!
Patricia -
Great investigation work there! So many people get duped by great advertising campaigns – shiny packaging has visual appeal, it’s true! Those Pimsleur library tools will give you a great start in preparing for our Japanese release – with Language101.com you’ll also be learning to read the characters so having an idea of what the words sound like may give you some extra brain processing power to remember the shapes!
Thomas
Please release a Chinese 101 soon!
Rose -
Coming up very soon! Check back monthly for an announcement.
Thomas
I homeschool my two children,ages 14 & 9. My son is going into 9th grade in August. I would like to know if it would be possible to teach both from this program? Spanish is the language of choice.
Teri -
Both children would be able to learn quite a lot from Language101.com’s Spanish software. The main requirements for any user is a reading comprehension of English (unless a parent wants to sit and dictate the written words to the child), the ability to hear the lessons being narrated as well as a quiet place that they can study, preferably alone. Since each paid package comes with license for four (4) users both children and both parents could all learn Spanish simultaneously.
Thomas