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Learning Another Language
© Beverley Paine, April 2006 Language is central to culture. Kill the language and you wipe out the culture. When we teach our children another language it's not just about learning to have a conversation or understand the language. Learning another language as a homeschooler widens a person's understanding about culture and building tolerance and respect for diversity. It's easy to incorporate learning another language and culture into home education when we treat it as a series of 'unit studies'. Pick a language - say Indonesian - and then learn about the people, the history, the culture. It's impossible not to learn a few words here and there of Indonesian. When you focus on learning the language in context though you create a rich learning experience and the information about culture, history, geography, etc will be retained more easily. You can also make learning the language an integral part of your every day life. For example: Learn the names of cooking utensils, and then when cooking dinner at night, use those words instead of pot, pan, cup and plate! Learning another language can be easy and fun, if you do it like this. I began doing this when my children were toddlers. We never ever got to the level of conversational Indonesian, but the kids can recognise the language when it's spoken on the radio or television and do understand a few words. More importantly they have developed that respect for diversity and other cultures...
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Pioneering members of the home education movement in Australia, Beverley and Robin Paine are passionate advocates of true educational choice for families. They began homeschooling their children in 1986 and three years later started the South Australian Home Based Learners network.Beverley wrote Getting Started with Homeschooling in 1995-97 and since then continues to write books and booklets on home education. She balances spending time helping home educators with working in her garden and renovating her home, as well as continuing to build her collection of writing on a variety of homeschooling subjects. Beverley maintains an extensive collection of websites as well as several Yahoo groups supporting families teaching their children at home. In 2007 Beverley joined the HEA and became a committee member in 2008: she also edits and produce the HEA Newsletter, HEA magazine, Stepping Stones for Home Educators, annual Resource Directory and other HEA publications. If you'd like to keep in touch with what Beverley is up to her in her life, sign up for the Homeschool Australia Newsletter or visit her Facebook page.