Foreign language advice for year 6 child

[Bumpkin]

My son?s primary school has dropped all language lessons in year 5 & 6 to concentrate on Sats.. I?m keen to do an online / app based fun language course with him, prob Spanish, so that he goes to Secondary with at least some familiarity of a foreign language. Happy to pay for a good one. Does anyone have any recommendations?

[redjam]

Duolingo is quite fun (and free). It encourages you to keep on a 'streak', so you do a short burst of learning each day. It's pretty basic but good for beginners and quite fun.

[bonaome]

Yep - Duolingo is fantastic. It keeps a record of how many days in a row you have practiced - so you could reward that behaviour, which might be useful as an incentive - and it makes language learning a game.

AFAIK a lot of local secondaries still start with French in yr 7.

[laureen]

Hi there,

I own a small business in the area teaching French and Spanish to children and adults. If you're interested let me know I'd be happy to help!

Laureen

[email protected]

[emahoney64]

Another vote for Duolingo and also utalk.com.

[lolasid]

This makes me so cross. It is statutory that they are taught a language. Concentrating on SATS IS NOT A HOLISTIC OR THE RIGHT WAY TO EDUCATE. Grrr.

[Norfolkvillas]

Also pretty dismayed to hear they can decide to drop languages! We love the Mondly app which is free.