Learning languages, both our own and other tongues, is a significant portion of a Charlotte Mason education.

More time is given to their study than any other subject on Miss Mason's timetables.

Today, we look at the foundational principles of language acquisition to lay the groundwork for learning to speak and write in any language.

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spreads the feast of the Charlotte Mason method. I'm Emily Kaiser and I'm here with Nicole Williams

and Liz Katrill. Charlotte Mason had a very distinctive method for teaching language, both our

English tongue as well as foreign

languages, both modern and ancient. It is this part of her curriculum that usually causes

the most trepidation in parents and teachers because it looks so different from what we ourselves

have experienced. Yet despite a gentle start in the first form, which is grades one through three,

if we steadily present each component as Ms. Mason laid out, we will be amazed at the command our

students have of language. So today, Liz will be sharing the foundational ideas underlying this

subject. Yes, we are going to

begin to explore this area of the feast called language, namely English grammar, the study of

foreign languages, and the study of Latin. But before we dive into those individually in

subsequent episodes, we want to talk about her

particular method of teaching there. It's important here to think about our relationship to

language, how we gain confidence in any language. Language is part of what makes us unique as persons. Without it, we would be

unable to thrive or function. Language by definition is the process or method of human communication.

Words used in a structured, commonly understood way by groups of people in a community or a country.

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