Using Media in Foreign Language Learning

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Homeschooling with Technology

Meryl van der Merwe

300 episodes

6 days ago

The Homeschooling with Technology Podcast is a weekly show, hosted by Meryl van der Merwe, where she shares ideas on how to use technology to be more productive as a homeschool parent and on how to use technology to make lessons more engaging. In addition, she covers techie skills your children need to learn and how to easily incorporate them into your homeschooling. Meryl homeschooled her 4 children after working as a computer programmer for many years. She uses technology whenever she can when teaching both live co-op classes and online classes for homeschoolers. In this podcast, she shares all the best tech resources she finds with you.

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Using Media in Foreign Language Learning

Homeschooling with Technology

16 minutes 40 seconds

3 months ago

Using Media in Foreign Language Learning

Episode 333: Using Media in Foreign Language Learning
In this episode of Homeschooling with Technology, host Meryl van der Merwe is joined by two of FundaFunda Academy’s language teachers—Sebastian (French) and Suzette (Spanish)—to discuss how media can enhance the foreign language learning experience.
You’ll discover:
How music supports vocabulary retention and pronunciation How to use movies and subtitles strategically as students progress Great podcast and website recommendations for Spanish and French learners How to turn your phone settings into a language-learning tool Why apps like Radio Garden Live are both educational and fun How these tools also build cultural understanding alongside language fluency
Sebastian and Suzette share not only their favorite resources but also practical strategies they use with their students at FundaFunda Academy to make learning a new language immersive and engaging.
Whether you're learning a foreign language at home or looking to enrich a formal curriculum, this episode offers easy, mostly free ways to bring the target language to life.
Links Mentioned in This Episode:

FundaFunda Academy’s French and Spanish Classes

SpanishListening.org

Radio Garden Live

Michael Harper’s Spanish Podcast

Coffee Break French

TV5Monde and RFI (Radio France Internationale)

Take a look at show sponsor, FundaFunda Academy to see what they offer for online classes and web-based unit studies.

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