In part of my effort to increase the likelihood of Becca speaking (reading and writing) Spanish and English, I requested all of the books from my local library on that topic. I’ve decided to review Leamos! (Let’s Read!) for Everything Educational Thursday.
Let’s Read! 101 Ideas to Help Your Child Learn to [...]
I am always looking for support in raising Becca to read/write/speak in Spanish and English and The Multilingual Children’s Association site provides all sorts of support to me. I find that it offers a lot of simple and practical suggestions on how to raise a multilingual child as well as providing opportunities to connect with [...]
Are you struggling to communicate with someone in an unfamiliar language? Well, I do and I have a really great computer translation site that I use that you might find helpful, Babel Fish Translation*. It has definitely made communicating with my mother-in-law a whole lot easier.
I may have mentioned once (or [...]
According to Dr. Sears, I am on the right track in my attempt at raising Becca to speak Spanish and English. He confirms what I have read and heard from others:
Each parent should speak one language - The child connects the language to one particular parent and does less switching between the languages. [...]
According to the Baby Center development tracker, Becca is now 18 months old so I thought it might be nice to update Becca’s language development. Within the past few weeks, she has really begun using words in a meaningful way and can respond to simple commands. Omar and I have gotten in the habit of [...]
Becca is chatting up a storm but not necessarily saying anything that I understand. She will often look at me and say something to the effect of, “gerbshe whicshown sumfer hacienden wollom?” or “sheicyhsem helomanshin walkerwyn!” There is definite inflection in her voice and clear facial expressions but it’s not quite English (or Spanish). This [...]
Apparently I am not the only one who is consciously raising a bilingual child in the United States today. Instead, I am one of many parents who have seen the benefit of their child speaking two languages fluently. According to this article in the Star Gazette News, more and more parents [...]
As I mentioned in a previous post, it is possible and even recommended to simultaneously teach a child more than one language. However, my research has shown me that a child should ‘master’ reading and writing in one language before learning another. I am going to continue to research this to determine if this is [...]
So one of my goals is to raise a bilingual child. I would like Becca to fluently read and write English and Spanish.
My primary language is English and I now speak rudimentary Spanish. My husband’s primary language is Spanish and then English. My Mother-in-law lives with us and primarily speaks Spanish.
The plan is for [...]
