Russian Materials for Young Learners

[Kris Groberg]

Kari Fisher wrote:

> If you know of anything, even if just the names of publishers of Russian
> teaching materials, I'd be most appreciative if you could contact me with
> the information. Also, I'd like to thank the handful of members who have
> already contacted me.

Kari, I can't be of any help with practical teaching materials, but we were
successful with teaching our kids a couple of languages. We did it pretty
simply. We started with Russian, very early (preschool), as the language we
used in the house. We weren't complicated about it. Kids are flexible. They
would go out the door and switch to English. When they reached junior high,
they started taking German, and we used that as our dinner table language. I
was amazed at their easy movement between languages:  Russian in the house,
German at dinner, English in the outside world.

It seems to me that you could take a class in Russian, and just take home the
rudimentary materials and matter-of-factly teach your child. The trick is to
act as if it's the way everyone functions. It's a good experiment: everybody
wins. You'll all learn something.

BTW, our autistic nephew, who is five, is very keen on odd alphabets, and a
good Russian azbuka opened a lot of doors for him.

Best wishes, Kris Groberg

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