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Have your kiddos listen, listen, listen. Audio recordings of natural conversations and engaging videos are important for context, grammar and tonality! It takes time to develop an ear for the structure and flow of a new language. Immersive exposure is the golden ticket.

For a more comprehensive view, look to Kató Lomb. She was a Hungarian polyglot, translator and simultaneous interpreter who taught herself more than 16 languages. You can see excepts from her book, "Polyglot: How I Learn Languages" and her 10 Commandments of Language Learning here: http://www.lingua.org.uk/lomb.alkire.html