Anyone raising a bilingual child? (Spanish)

Re: Anyone raising a bilingual child? (Spanish)

• neverblushed member

  September 2012

  Good for you for raising bilingual kids!  I am hoping my sister and her Argentinian-American DH do the same when/if they have kids.

  I don't have much to help you, other than to say that I noticed last time I was in  Barnes and Noble that a large section of the children's book area was devoted to children's books in Spanish. 

  High School English teacher and mom of 2 kids:

  
  

  DD, born 9/06/00 -- 12th grade

  DS, born 8/25/04 -- 7th grade

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• Anlg

  September 2012

  I have found some on amazon so not much help. 

   

  I hope you don't mind me asking here but how did you teach them both languages?Do you and  your H speak Spanish? I am the only one who speaks Spanish in the house and my kids 5 & 3 are not fluent. They understand a lot and say phrases but they mostly speak English. 

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• cecee36

  September 2012

  My daughter attends an International School where she is learning 3 languages; Spanish being one of them.  Every month, there is an opportunity to order books from Scholastic.  There's a section on the website that lists books in different languages and there's lots of choices.  I'd try there if you aren't having luck anywhere else.  We're always pleased with their selection and prices.

  

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• lilles member

  October 2012

  We do the One Parent One Language approach. I speak to my daughters in Spanish all the time and my husbands speaks to them in English. We have done this since they were born and they are fluent in both languages. There are no exceptions to this rule so for example if we are having dinner I'll speak to my husband in English(his native language) but I'll switch back to Spanish to address my girls. My LOs will constantly switch as well so they always address me in Spanish and DH in English.

  Let me know if you have more questions about how to do this. The key is consistency.
  

   

  Anlg:

  I have found some on amazon so not much help. 

   

  I hope you don't mind me asking here but how did you teach them both languages?Do you and  your H speak Spanish? I am the only one who speaks Spanish in the house and my kids 5 & 3 are not fluent. They understand a lot and say phrases but they mostly speak English. 

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• Jen&Len

  October 2012

  lilles:

  We do the One Parent One Language approach. I speak to my daughters in Spanish all the time and my husbands speaks to them in English. We have done this since they were born and they are fluent in both languages. There are no exceptions to this rule so for example if we are having dinner I'll speak to my husband in English(his native language) but I'll switch back to Spanish to address my girls. My LOs will constantly switch as well so they always address me in Spanish and DH in English.

  Let me know if you have more questions about how to do this. The key is consistency.
  

   

  Anlg:

  I have found some on amazon so not much help. 

   

  I hope you don't mind me asking here but how did you teach them both languages?Do you and  your H speak Spanish? I am the only one who speaks Spanish in the house and my kids 5 & 3 are not fluent. They understand a lot and say phrases but they mostly speak English. 

  I should have done this.  DH and I speak 4 different dialects of Chinese between the two of us, but none in common.  So we ended up speaking English at home all the time, which is our main language anyway (we're both 1st generation americans).  Our Chinese isn't all that great, so it's just easier for us to speak English.  I guess I was worried that the kids would try to speak to the other parent in the dialect they didn't understand, so we ended up speaking English to the kids as well.  I hope it's not too late to start!
  

  

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