Are your children having a harder time with foreign language?

Question

My teenager is taking a second year of foreign language. He barely made it through the first year. When my older children took foreign language, the textbooks were in English teaching French/Spanish. Now the books are totally in French/Spanish and my kid along with a vast majority of the others are not grasping any of it. It is a shame. There is now a large portion of the children barely passing and yet three years of language of required in my school district. Are there others out there having the same problem with these new textbooks that are based on immersion?

Answer 1

im 14 and have taken 2 years of french and am taking spanish as we speek.

the textbooks we use are diffucult but thats because they expect us to be able to grasp everything and have a better understanding of the launage. they think that if the textbooks are in english then its easier and apparlently they dont like that.

tell your teenager that he/she needs to speak it 15 mins every day!

if they dont they wont remember any of it.

good luck

Answer 2

i know im having a hard time learning Spanish. im a sophomore this year, luckily i only have to take 2 years of a foreign language.

Answer 3

What I notice about children being raised bi-lingual or tri-lingual, is that they speak both languages very well, but that the speed of development is slower.