How to teach your child... Foreign Language with Doman Method

This is just a summary of the Glenn Doman's method of teaching children a foreign language with my own comments. For easier identification, my own comments are going to be in blue.

  1. Select which language you want to teach.
    I really like Teresa's recomendations on your selection of the language.
  2. Materials that you need:
    1. Dictionary
    2. Tapes
    3. Bit of Intelligence Cards
    4. Reading materials
  3. How to teach:
    1. Bits of Intelligence: picture on one side, word on the other. I think for the words, the same rules apply on fonts and sizes, as in Teaching To Read: see How To Make My Own Materials. For the images: same rules as for Encyclopedic knowledge cards - large clear picture on the white background.

      How to teach bits of Itelligence cards: chose words that your child is using in daily life (I've used the same presentations that I did for my baby in his native language and translated the words. If you have "How To Teach Your Baby To Read book, you can find the recomended categories and initial words there. For more on teaching to read, card creation and other recomendations see Teach your baby to Read: Glenn Doman’s Method Also, please check out detailed recomendations by Teresa on How To Teach Doman's Foreign Language cards.) Initially say the word in baby's native language a few times, so that you both agree what is shown on a card (especially if it something difficult, such as "fast", "running", etc.)
    2. Reading: start with single words, similarly to your native language "Teach Your Baby to Read" Program (See our Teach your baby to Read: Glenn Doman’s Method) proceed to couplets, then small sentences with those words, then books.
    3. Conversation and Dialogs

... to be continued.

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