If you do two languages (Latin + a modern) how do you schedule them?

[Hoggirl]

I need to get the WTM back out and look over Susan's suggestions for this. Ds will be in Grade 6 next year, and I feel like I need to start looking at adding Spanish to his Latin. How do you schedule two languages?

[AllSmiles]

For my 5th grader, I schedule an hour a day for languages. For us, Latin usually takes 60 minutes on Day 1. On days 2-5 it usually takes about 30 minutes. That leaves us 30 minutes on days 2-5 to cover Spanish. I try to break the languages up so that he isn’t doing both of them in a row on days 2-5.

[mcconnellboys]

We alternate. We do Spanish on M,W,F one week, with Latin on T,R. The next week, we do Latin on M,W,F, and Spanish T,R. I schedule 30 minute time blocks. So over the course of two weeks, he gets 2 1/2 hours of each language.

We sometimes also are involved with outside language classes over the course of a school year, but I never know when or how much that will be ahead of time, so I stick with our home studies for the basics.

Regena

[StephanieZ]

My older two (8 & 11 yo) do Latin 3 days a week and they do Spanish about 3-4 days a week. Some days it overlaps, some days it doesn't. My 5 yo still just does spanish -- about 3 days a week right now.

[Laura Corin]

I need to get the WTM back out and look over Susan's suggestions for this. Ds will be in Grade 6 next year, and I feel like I need to start looking at adding Spanish to his Latin. How do you schedule two languages?

Calvin studies Mandarin after lunch every day - two one-hour lessons on Tuesday and Friday and half an hour of homework every other day. Latin is scheduled for two morning half hour lessons (one on Tuesday, one on Thursday) plus two fifteen minute memorisation periods (on those same days).

Best wishes

Laura

[ArwenA]

We do Latin for about 30 minutes daily starting in 3rd grade.
We do informal French in K-4th on a sort of daily or whenever we can basis. In 5th we start formal French with Rosetta Stone on Mon, Wed and Fri and do informal french on Tuesday and Thursday.

[Jenny in Atl]

I also have an hour for languages (Latin & Spanish). Dd12 does Spanish on her own but LP with me, and I do both Spanish & LL with dd7.

[JumpedIntoTheDeepEndFirst]

We are studying Latin (Latin Primer) 3 days a week and Russian (Rosetta Stone) 3 days a week. Language is the one class that we carry into the weekend. Right now it is at the kids discretion when the complete the weekend segment-just so that it is completed.

[Sarah CB]

My sixth grader does both each day. She spends about 45 minutes a day on Latin and about 30 minutes a day on French. She also has a 90 minute online Latin chat each weel and a 45 minute French class at co-op each week.

She is in her fifth year of Italian classes as well. She goes on Saturdays for two hours from October until mid-April. This doesn't require much in the way of daily practice even though I've scheduled 10 minutes a day to review her materials.

Sarah

[Beth in Central TX]

Same here. We do both Latin and Greek every day. I have both languages scheduled for an hour each day; usually we go longer at the beginning of the week when a new concept is introduced, but by the end of the week we don't take the full time. It all evens out in the end.