Teaching languages to a 6 year old

boogerballs · 17-08-2017 03:22PM #1

I have a 6 year old who has just finished Junior Infants in which she started learning Irish. She really took to this and it looks like she has a real interest in learning languages, she asked me to teach her some Irish over the summer so we started on the Irish book she will be using this year.

I want to try and encourage this by introducing some other languages to her, I don't have other languages so it would also be a nice thing to do with her.

Has anyone any advice on what I could use, any good books or software. Also, what languages would be best. I have read that German would be best as it is a very structured language?

Postgrad10 · 17-08-2017 06:39PM

Usbourne have a great range of books /Flashcards for teaching children languages. They have links to their websites for pronounciation.

http://www.easons.com/p-3787206-usborne-my-first-german-word-book.aspx?gclid=EAIaIQobChMItNC84fTe1QIVxLftCh2-kA91EAQYASABEgKasfD_BwE

Spanish is another great language to start learning at a young age. More and more schools are adding it to choices for junior cert.

TheDriver · 17-08-2017 07:20PM

Counting is a good one, there's some great YouTube videos that learn by sing a long. I found it's a visit to the country to use the language creates buy in

Teaching languages to a 6 year old

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