• Teach Your Child to read... in Russian: you can find a list of materials, links to computer presentations, Russian sites that offer different methods of teaching to read
• What can I do to preserve the foreign (or native) language in my kids memory?
• Russian Free Online Dictionary: Lingvo
• Russian Grammar and Orthography (and checker)
• Teach Your Child to read... in Russian

At this point, I don't have much. I hope more materials will come from other parents.

Recommended dictionaries for German-English (and back) translation (thanks to MaryAnn for the links and wonderful tips!):

• Leo Online dictionary
• Beolingus

Both sites offer translation from english-german, german-english, as well as some other languages. I click on english-german, and type in the english word that I wanted translated. Then up pops several choices of german words with sound file attached. I detach the sound file on my hard-drive and insert it into my powerpoint files.
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As far as I remember, American Academy of Pediatrics recommends the parents to avoid showing TV to their kids until two years old. As for educational videos, there are a lot more videos that just claim to be educational, like Baby Einsteins: Baby Einstein videos harmful for kids?

There is even an article in Time magazine that links early TV watching to autism: Does Watching TV Cause Autism?

I don't know how much this particular research can be trusted, since my friend with a PHD in psychology just has been attending a seminar on autism, which stated that the scientific community believes that autism is a purely genetic disease, and all other "findings" are just scandalous ways to get public attention.
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• Glenn Doman's method of teaching a baby to read: in brief
• Glenn Doman's Method FAQ
• How to teach your child... Foreign Language with Doman Method

Materials:

• Single Words
• Books
• Encyclopedic Knowledge Topics Listing: some sections contain presentations in Spanish
• Other sites containing materials in Spanish
• Other resources: computer programs, dvds, books, websites, toys...

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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.
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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.
      
      

Me and my son, together, just started learning Spanish. This is an ever growing list of useful resources that I was able to find so far:

• Power Point Presentations and how to use them
• Websites for Parents
• Websites for Kids
• Books for Kids
• Software
• DVDs, Videos, TV programs
• Audio CDs or tapes.
• Toys

Please, please, please add to it via your own comments below or posts on the forum! I am sure that all of us can benefit from more suggestins and favorites!


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Thanks to Marcelo Bayma for sharing this!

Begin with japanese sound. Each symbol has an equivalent sound in japanese, for example, "yama".

Told her you are showing japanese words. Show the cards and read the word in japanese. In this stage there's no problem about multiple meanings, ok?

A word is a body & soul entity and it is necessary to learn it in a whole. Imagine when teaching italian: first you read in the original sound. When you have finished the cards, then you can try a 2nd depth.

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(Thanks to Laurie Tiemens and Lisa Mirman's for sharing these wonderful recomendations):

Coming off the feature on Nightline, several of you asked how I teach Spanish to my kids as a non native speaker. I am writing now to share some angles on how I expose my kids to foreign languages.
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Thanks to Teresa for sharing her personal method for teaching her 3 year old son 4 different languages!

My son knows 4 languages and is almost 3.5 years old. He tests at a 5-year+ level in English and Spanish, he is at his age-level with ASL (American Sign Language), and I estimate he is at a two-year-old level with Mandarin Chinese. I understand that the most important years with languages is 0-3 and then 3-6. So I have made languages a priority for us.

I wanted to share some of what I have done and experienced with you. I am from South Texas in the US where Spanish and English are used
interchangeably. The lands were originally only Spanish-speaking and changed officially in the 1920's to English. When my son was born, I wanted to make sure that he was ambi-lingual. Because you are asking when to introduce languages, I assume you are from the US because
many, if not most, other countries, or regions within, teach 2 or more languages to children naturally and simultaneously.

My recommendation is pick a language and then pick the level of competency first before you start.
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Did you learn French in high school? Did you speak your mother tongue as a child? Do you remember anything?

Many parents are really worrying how to preserve the language knowledge in their kids, who seem to go completely oblivious to it as soon as they start school. Still, I know families who succeed despite all the external pressure, so here are a few tips:
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Since these books are Power Point Presentations, I show them to my baby on a computer and then print (See How to Create My Own Books).
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• Showing Presentations on the Computer
• Printing Presentations
• Creating your own Power Point Presentations
• Other Methods of creating books for your baby

Once the baby figures out how to walk, there is no way he can spare the precious time for the cards or other sitting down activities. Don't despair, there are plenty of "work around solutions" to keep his attention and interest.

Thank you very much to Laurie Tiemens, the moderator of TeachYourBabyToRead and the Home Schooling Mother of 10 kidos for sharing other member's suggestions.

Here are some ideas for your to try. And if you are still not sure, you can reread Doman's method results for some encouragement. It has some highly inspirational stories about kids who also were losing interest only to surprise their parents in the end.
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Why not? There myriad of options available! However, if you are worrying for early TV/computer exposure, read more at Can TV/computer be harmful or helpful for kids development?

Power Point Presentations
Special Computer Programs
Websites
DVDs
Toys

If you are looking for multimedia solutions for teaching Spanish, read more in Teaching Spanish: resources.

Power Point Presentations

The links to files and further resources are available in the Jump Start Teaching Your Baby To Read description of Glenn Doman's method
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Little Girl readingHuh?! What do you mean no testing?

Exactly that: testing is exactly the opposite of fun. Testing is putting the child on the spot which he didn't ask for. Testing is a sign of distrust to your child - you don't TRUST him, that he knows, you need PROOF.

"Babies love to learn but they hate to be tested. In that way they are very like grown-ups. Testing is the opposite of learning. Testing is full of stress... The more you test him, the slower he will learn and the less he will want to." (Glenn Doman, Janet Doman How to Teach Your Baby To Read, 2002. Page 186).

I think this principle applies to anything you teach your child to do: to run, jump, read, or do physics problems. Gee, I wish they'd follow that principles in my college years!
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