[blparent] foreign language emersion

[Jaquiss, Robert]

Hello:

     The NLS does have foreign language books including materials in German and Spanish. 
There are of course braille codes for German and Spanish. It should be noted that brailling a foreign language using BANA rules is different than brailling in the native languages code. Duxbury can handle the various types of codes.
Kurzweil and Openbook can also scan foreign language materials.
Hope this is useful.

Regards,

Robert


Robert Jaquiss
Access Technology Specialist
National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute
200 E. Wells Street at Jernigan Place
Baltimore, MD 21230
Phone: (410) 659-9314, Ext.2422
Email: rjaquiss at nfb.org

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Erin Rumer
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 4:07 PM
To: NFB blind parent listserv
Subject: [blparent] foreign language emersion

Hello List,

 

Well, our little guy Dawson is growing quickly at 22 months old now.  My husband and I have decided that considering Dawson's development he will be ready to start attending a German language emersion preschool we have here in San Diego.  We've checked into the school in great detail and love the program and to make things even easier on Dawson, he will have his best friend in class with him.  After giving it great consideration my husband and I have plans for Dawson to learn German as his second language and then around age 6 he will begin learning Spanish as a third language.  There is a phenomenal Spanish program for kids right in our neighborhood that start the kids at 6 and go from there.  We don't want German to stop once he begins learning Spanish so we are strongly considering sending Dawson to a German emersion elementary school that has stellar reviews as well as test scores and success of kids after attending that school.

 

I share all of this in hopes that I could hear some stories from some of you who have also enrolled your child in an emersion program or teach your child another language at home in addition to them learning English.  From now until Dawson begins the German preschool in November, I want to expose him to some German through APS on our iPad and through the Little Pim foreign language learning program for kids.  I know that I won't have any trouble finding some awesome learning tools in this day-in-age of technology and my hope is that some exposure will help prepare him for the sounds and some words that he'll be hearing in his school.

 

Take care,

 

Erin

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