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DS does a lot with language and does really well with it... but I can't say he really loves it. So I throw in some fun extra things on the side -- Spanish Garfield comics are the recent hit around here. What I'd really like is some "native" fun things, like good Spanish television. We only seem to get the soap opera channel... I might just need to order some Chapulin Colorado DVDs...

At least Spanish is easy to find -- he's starting Russian, and I have the worst time finding anything fun in that direction, although it's probably because of my severely limited ability in Russian to begin with... makes googling pretty difficult.

My son has been begging to learn Japanese. I would like for him to learn Spanish because there are a lot more people speaking Spanish than Japanese where we live. I haven't found anything yet for him to learn Japanese that I can afford.

Hmmm...I stumbled on this when I googled stuff for you:

http://www.japanese-online.com/

Thanks. He liked the dictionary he found on that site, but he's still trying to talk me into buying Rocket Japanese because it is interactive. It might be a little easier to learn that way, but it is expensive. We are going to try a free trial before we do anything.