There are many everyday activities you can do at home to learn a second language.  Let’s mention a few.  When you watch a movie, you can use the subtitle menu along with the spoken language track you are trying to learn.  Sing songs in that language.  How? Use Karaoke beginning with slow songs such as romantic or oldies styles.  Actually, you don’t even need a karaoke machine. You can by a CD and find the lyrics on-line in any of the free web-sites such as www.lyrics.com.  Try to think using the few phrases you know like good morning, how are you and try to learn one new phrase once a week or once a day.

Video games: challenge your kids.  If they enjoy sitting in-front of a screen battling in a military battlefield or in space in the middle of a space ship war, in the oceans, wherever they go in this digital fiction fantasy, they can easily create a vocabulary playing these games in a second language.  Challenge them, you’ll be surprised, they’ll even surprise themselves.

On-line activities: Learning games like the ones at the following link: http://www.apples4theteacher.com/esl-games/spanish/

Children’s books with audio CD: Listen to the CD and follow along in the book.  This technique will introduce new vocabulary and help with pronunciation.

Use your creativity.  When you’re cooking, serving meals, passing the salt, the pepper, the chicken, when you’re joking, or doing laundry. Sometimes the learning tools are right there in front of us every day.  We just don’t see them. 

Let’s forget the phrase, “I’m too old to learn.”  Change it to, “I can learn something new every day.”  Go ahead try it.  Pick your favorite movie.  It can be Terminator or Pretty Woman. Try it, learn, but more than anything, have fun