Episode 51: Foreign Language

A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast

Nicole Williams

Education

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Foreign language was a major component in Charlotte Mason's curriculum. This podcast addresses the reasons for foreign language study and how mothers of one tongue can still faithfully include it in their homeschool.

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"All educated persons should be able to speak French." (Vol. 1, p. 300)

If you would like to study along with us, here are some passages from The Home Education Series and other Parent's Review articles that would be helpful for this episode's topic. You may also read the series online here, or get the free Kindle version from Fisher Academy.

Home Education, Part V, Chapter XX

An Essay Towards a Philosophy of Education, Book I, Chapter 10, Section II: Languages

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1:45.1	French which I do very poorly and don't know very much that's about the extent of my ability
1:51.2	right there that we're going to be discussing foreign language today.
1:57.1	We see on the timetables that we have of masons that foreign language gets the largest proportion of lesson time of any subject on the
2:09.3	curriculum.
2:11.7	And yet most of us American mothers it's the least.
2:17.0	We lack ability ourselves as Americans generally and or we were taught a foreign language so poorly ourselves.
2:27.4	We just feel at a complete loss about how to go about including this in our feast that we're spreading before our children.
2:34.1	But why mom do you think that it was it is such an important part?
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