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Judy Martialay

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in Mount Vernon, The United States

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http://www.polyglotkidz.com

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Children's, Nonfiction

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November 2015

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Judy Martialay was born in Mount Vernon, New York, and received a BA from Mount Holyoke College and MA from Columbia University. She taught Foreign Language in elementary school, middle and high school.
During and after retirement, she devoted time to public advocacy for foreign language education with the New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers.
Her dream is to give all children the opportunity to experience a foreign language, as early as possible.
Judy has traveled to Mexico, France, Spain, Italy, Algeria, China, Ethiopia, Greece, Israel and other countries. She loves guitar, oil painting, and gardening. She is currently studying Japanese. She lives in Sea Cliff, N.Y. with husband Javier, has two daughters and one granddaug ...more

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Easy ways to encourage your middle/high school student to continue foreign language study

Hi, everyone, thank you so much for signing up for my blog. Here's the link to my guest post on Multicultural Children's Book Day. I had originally intended it for middle and high school students:
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Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World

by Thomas Cahill

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The Witches: Salem, 1692

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“To expand our minds and to become more fully civilized members of the human race, we should learn as many different languages as we can. The diversity of tongues is a treasure and a resource for thinking new thoughts.”
― David Bellos

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