Global Gifts
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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 |
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Multilingual and multicultural
resources and shopping sites
General Shopping Sites:
World of ReadingBooks 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.
- French: Alliance Francaise, www.af-chicago.org
- German: Goethe Institut Chicago, www.goethe.de/ins/us/chi/enindex.htm
- Spanish: Instituto Cervantes, www.chicago.cervantes.es
- Spanish: International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago, www.latinoculturalcenter.org
- Italian: Italian Cultural Institute, www.iicchicago.esteri.it/IIC_Chicago




















