Global Gifts

Around the World with Langauge Stars! CD at your Language Stars center

Putumayo World Music, in your language Stars center and at www.putumayo.com


World Map Placemat

Our World Floor Puzzle

All About Languages
Learning Wheel


Around the World
63-piece puzzle


 
 

Multilingual and multicultural

resources and shopping sites

General Shopping Sites:

World of Reading
Books Without Borders
Multicultural Kids
Applause Learning

Resources in Additional Languages

Little Guru Skool Introduce your child to Indianculture in a fun and interactive way! Little GuruSkool features both Hindi and English to familiarize children with basic vocabulary and the sounds of both languages during the early developmental years.

The Reading Corner Stories for advanced readers and heritage language students in Albanian, Armenian, Czech, English, French, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Ukranian. Sponsored by the International Step By Step Association.

Other Go Global-Grow Global Ideas:

Host an exchange student or send your child abroad: www.ceran.com, www.afs.org, www.yfu.org

Attend a foreign language summer camp – Language Stars day or overnight camps, or Concordia Language Villages (overnight): www.concordialanguagevillages.org

Hire a second language babysitter or au pair – www.iapa.org, au-pair-box.com, bulletin boards at local cultural organizations.

Visit your local cultural center: take advantage of local cultural offerings, befriend a family newly arrived from another country, learn about another country’s customs, traditions and language.