50 languages is a free online educational resource in several languages. On this site, you will find everything from audio-visual material to tests. The is an app for Android and iOS that can be used on the go to keep a language in active use.
Link: www.50languages.com
Learn several languages through courses designed by language experts. Mondly has paid content, but a lot is also available for free. There are daily lessons, a wide variety of content and a chatbot that you could chat with in the target language. Mondly is a big site for learning new languages but may also be used to maintain multilingualism in the home.
Link: www.mondly.com
A site with a great amount of free learning activities for learning or working with many languages. The activities here do not require any form of registration and were developed for language students of various ages and learning styles. While the site is useful for parents with multilingual children, it is perhaps better suited as a tool for language teachers.
Originally created for the U.S. Government, these resources are now freely available to the public. With 72 languages covered, there are plenty of resources to reinforce anyone on their path towards fluency. The lessons on this site are in PDF format, allowing you to follow along with the audio as you learn. There are workbooks available too.
The Learning Resource Exchange is a service that enables schools to find educational content from many different countries and providers. The site has material spanning a wide variety of topics, subjects and languages. Ther are also other resources on the page that can be useful for language teachers.
Lyrics training allows you to learn new vocabulary and expressions, and reinforce grammar concepts through the writing the missing words in songs lyrics. Lyrics training can be used on a personal computer, tablet with a web browser or on a smartphone with the lyrics training app.
Lyrics training uses music videos with live lyrics that pauses and asks the listener to type a missing word into the lyrics. Users can choose differnt difficulty levels and differnt songs and you do not need any account (even if accounts can be created for free).
A site with free exercises to learn or maintain a variety of languages. Loecsen is focused on teaching useful vocabulary to differnt kinds of learners and can be a tool for parents of multilingual children. The site offers different themes with vocabulary with audio files for learning pronunciation. Learners can also test their understanding with the help of quizzes and tests. Loecsen also has a companion app on the Google Play store and the Apple App Store.
Link: www.loecsen.com/es
A resource where you can find lessons, grammar tips, vocabulary, phrases, language tools and audio files. The site proclaims to focus on grammar and vocabulary but has a wide variety of additional useful tools and tips.
The site has an extensive list of supported languages, with all of them having listings for vocabulary and grammar, there are no exercises or learning activities.
Link: https://mylanguages.org/
The Harmonious Bilingualism Network is the home of research being conducted on harmoniuos bilingual development. The website provides families with research-based sources to help develop bilingualism in their family environment.
These resources include podcasts, videos, blogs (by parents and researchers) and research articles that ensure research on bilingualism and ideas or concerns for raising bilingual children is easily accessible to families. The website and resources are available in English, Dutch, German and French.
European project Erasmus+
Start: September 2016
Presentation: May 2018 - Conference Brussels
End: August 2018
Talking About Language and EmotionS at home.
Why this project?