<p>Can anyone recommend a workbook, website or app to help a high school student who is massively struggling with Italian?</p>
<p>I am listing the ones my daughter used in HS Italian:</p>
<p>[Italian</a> Language Guide - Improve your knowledge of Italian Language](<a href=“404 - Page Not Found”>http://www.italianlanguageguide.com/)</p>
<p>[Italian</a> Vocabulary: Numbers](<a href=“404 - Page Not Found”>Italian Vocabulary: Numbers)</p>
<p><a href=“https://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072859830/student_view0/[/url]”>https://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072859830/student_view0/</a></p>
<p>[Verbix</a> – Romance languages: conjugate Italian verbs](<a href=“Verbix -- verb conjugation on-line in 10's of languages”>Italian - verb conjugation -- Verbix verb conjugator)</p>
<p>[ITALIAN</a> VERBS](<a href=“http://www.italian-verbs.com/]ITALIAN”>http://www.italian-verbs.com/)</p>
<p>Hey, wow! Thanks!</p>
<p>Hijacking this thread, as zm has her solution - anything similar for HS Spanish? S2 is doing reasonably well but his Spanish grades are pulling down his GPA. In particular, he has problems with accents (not speaking; those little marks on letters).</p>
<p>It’s so nice to go through life with you NYMomof2!</p>
<p>Italian is sucking down an otherwise pretty GPA and the worst of it is that, for once in his life, he is putting in the work. But somehow the memorization and practice are not translating into good grades on the tests. Ugh!</p>
<p>We’re doing something crazy and letting our daughter, a HS sophomore, study in Spain next semester. She drove the entire process and researched options thoroughly. She is SO excited. From talking to people, it seems that she will be able to understand just about everything Spaniards say after three to four weeks. After three to four months, she will be dreaming in Spanish and not having to translate from English to Spanish before she speaks. She will be there February through June. DH turns 60 in March, so I told him to celebrate he should go sightseeing with her at the end of her stay.</p>
<p>That is going to be a fabulous trip! My D2’s boyfriend did a semester in Spain in his junior year and he says it was one of the best things he has ever done. NEver had another problem in language, either.</p>
<p>My S’s Italian teacher posts on Quizlet. If you’re not familiar with Quizlet, it contains quizzes, flashcards, and other interactive exercises for a variety of subjects posted by users (often teachers, mostly HS). It’s a great, easy to use resource:</p>
<p>[Search</a> ? italian | Quizlet](<a href=“http://quizlet.com/subject/italian/]Search”>http://quizlet.com/subject/italian/)</p>
<p>I was always a dunce in foreign language in high school. After a year in France I was pretty fluent. Once I learned French other languages came easier, but I still had to work harder than most of my classmates. For me it was critical to do the oral exercises at the language lab every single day. It’s really hard for me to get new vocabulary and grammar patterns into my permanent memory. </p>
<p>FWIW I think foreign language is one place you can have lower grades and not get dinged too much in college admissions. My younger son struggled with Latin for three years. He got low 80s for the most part - and the last year the grade was a gift - she must have given him brownie points for trying. He got into some very selective colleges anyway. (Vassar, Tufts, Chicago)</p>
<p>At the risk of making more of a fool out of myself, what is language lab? I don’t think my son has that. If he does, I’ve never heard of it before. Maybe he is supposed to and doesn’t.</p>
<p>Oh, I think language labs have been replaced by CDs you can play on your computer. They were full of excercises that you had to do out loud. You’d sit in your carrel with the earphones on and do them.</p>
<p>Stuff like:
Lab voice: “to like” John _____ the red dress"
You: “John like the red dress”
Lab voice “John likes the red dress”
You: (getting it right this time) “John likes the red dress”</p>
<p>Yes, zm - we should get together with our sons at some point!</p>
<p>I am old enough to have used language labs, exactly as mathmom describes them. </p>
<p>Thanks, gourmetmom, for the tip. And thank you, mathmom, for the reassurance. His Spanish grades are real outliers.</p>
<p>Duolingo. Fun and addictive!</p>
<p>[Duolingo</a> | Learn Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and English for free](<a href=“http://www.duolingo.com/]Duolingo”>http://www.duolingo.com/)</p>
<p>Sir Doofalot has Duolingo and it’s fantastic. Worked every day for an hour on it like practicing music, but it didn’t help him do well on the tests. I can’t imagine why.</p>
<p>I love how every question I have has already been asked and answered here! thanks for the resource CC’ers, hoping mine can pull up her grade too! Her college prof advised her today that her pronunciation is terrible and that she should consider giving it up :(</p>
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<p>She must be starting off at quite a high level to make this at all feasible.</p>