Resources for Students

• Arlington Public Library Learn Languages website: https://library.arlingtonva.libguides.com/aboutmango
  Arlington Public Library offers various ways of learning and practicing language, especially for children.
• BBC Languages website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages
  This site has resources, review games, and teaching videos in more than 30 languages.
• Brain Pop websites:
  • en español: http://esp.brainpop.com/
  • en français: http://www.brainpop.fr/
    These sites have videos, quizzes and reading material in Spanish and French across subject areas.

Resources for Parents on Language Learning

• American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages website: http://www.actfl.org/advocacy/discover-languages/advocacy/discover-languages/what-the-research-shows/references-cognitive#improves_cognitive
  This website has many articles to show cognitive improvements as a result of learning another language.
• Brain benefits of being bilingual article: http://todayhealth.today.com/_news/2013/01/08/16416451-being-bilingual-can-keep-your-brain-young-sharp?lite
  This article demonstrates some of the ways that speaking another language can have positive effects on the brain.
• The Atlantic Times article on brain benefits for multilinguals: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/more-languages-better-brain/381193/?single_page=true&google_editors_picks=true