SOMA school district - what foreign language study is offered
susan1014 said:
dg64 said:
FWIW a few other world languages are available through online courses at CHS. You have to get special permission to take these classes.
Unless the quality is better than the online Spanish that my daughter took in middle school (through the District vendor), I would not advise most students to consider it.
There was no live conversation practice, no routine contact with the instructor, etc. A very dedicated student might learn from it, as might a student learning a language spoken by a family member, but it did not replicate an effective classroom experience, IMHO.
Kid is not quite at the conversational level yet (new language) but there is quite a bit of focus on correct pronunciation and rudimentary grammar in the level 1 course. There are weekly e-drop in sessions with a live teacher but my kid has not made it to any of them yet. He has to submit oral recordings as well as written work and there are weekly quizzes. So far so good. Self-directed part is the hardest part.
And now they're proposing limiting the little foreign language they do have in 6th-8th grades to 50-minutes every other day. Astoundingly counterproductive, backwards, and short-sighted.
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Unless the quality is better than the online Spanish that my daughter took in middle school (through the District vendor), I would not advise most students to consider it.
There was no live conversation practice, no routine contact with the instructor, etc. A very dedicated student might learn from it, as might a student learning a language spoken by a family member, but it did not replicate an effective classroom experience, IMHO.