Charlotte Mason's school programs had students studying three languages besides English and Latin by the time they graduated.

Why was the study of foreign language so important to her?

We'll explore that idea and lay out her method for teaching languages in today's episode.

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Welcome to a delectable education, the podcast that spreads the feast of the Charlotte Mason Method. I'm Emily Kaiser and I'm here with Nicole Williams and Liz Cottrell.

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There is no subject included in the Fe feast of a Charlotte Mason education for simply a pragmatic purpose.

Instead, Charlotte Mason recognized that knowledge itself is delightful.

And we never can tell what ideas are going to be the key that our child needs to open the door to the rest of their life.

The study of foreign language may just be one key, though it can be very useful to learn a

second language or a third in order to communicate with other people of another nationality

or ethnicity,

a way to love our neighbor, even, Charlotte Mason believed.

Learning another language gives us much more.

By learning another tongue, we learn to see the world from a different perspective.

We begin to think differently and learn that other peoples are as we are with a

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