I am not an expert in foreign language instruction. I only speak English fluently and have taken upon myself the task of helping my children learn multiple foreign languages. In graduate school for Speech-Language Pathology I was blessed to be able to “specialize” and work with a professor to help…
We started our journey to learn Ancient Greek when my boys were 6 and 4. I purchased the first book in the Hey Andrew Teach Me Some Greek series. It came with a CD, workbook, and reader. We slowly went through the first book over the course of 2 years…
I’ve started all my kids on Greek when they were close to Kindergarten age. My daughter has begun to learn the Koine Greek alphabet this year and we using the Hey Andrew, Teach Me Some Greek workbook for level 1 as well as the readerto introduce her to the letters…
Learning foreign language vocabulary can be done through rote memorization, but it isn’t very fun and at times it can be quite tedious. We’ve had success learning individual words by association. For instance the word for farmer in ancient Greek is αὐτουργός which sounds like owe – tore- gose. We…
This has been an interesting year for our Greek studies. I started out my oldest in a free online Koine Greek program. I guess it is true what they say about free things. While it looked like a great program, it was difficult to use on a regular basis. I…
Being able to converse in multiple languages is something that is important to our homeschool so we spend a bit of time working toward that goal. For several years now we have been slowly learning 3-4 languages. Right now we are working on Arabic, Mandarin, and ancient Greek. French was…
