Comments on: Week of SpanglishBaby Moms: Perdida in Translation http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/05/week-of-spanglishbaby-moms-perdida-in-translation/ Raising bilingual and bicultural kids Thu, 26 Jul 2018 07:12:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: Welcome, Scary Mommy Readers! | All of Me…Now http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/05/week-of-spanglishbaby-moms-perdida-in-translation/#comment-393351 Welcome, Scary Mommy Readers! | All of Me…Now Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:41:10 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=11885#comment-393351 [...] a tasty taste of my writing, click here, here, here and here for a few [...]

]]> By: Sarah http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/05/week-of-spanglishbaby-moms-perdida-in-translation/#comment-347603 Sarah Tue, 28 May 2013 18:50:37 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=11885#comment-347603 Wow. I think you captured my heart and put it on paper. Thank you for sharing. I am a native English-speaker, but I learned Spanish through years of study and travel. I want to give my children the gift of bilingualism without all the work I went through, but I do wonder if they truly get to hear my heart. I will have to think on this one.

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]]> By: MamiCool http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/05/week-of-spanglishbaby-moms-perdida-in-translation/#comment-22866 MamiCool Mon, 09 May 2011 16:23:17 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=11885#comment-22866 Hello Carla,

I’d never thought of it that way. Like Roxana, in my case, Spanish is my main language and how I feel like myself. You are doing a great thing here, by making the effort of teaching them Spanish, despite the way you feel about it. I think you should continue to do so for a few years more. It is too soon to change now, they’ll probably forget Spanish if you do it now. I think they’ll have to develop more their language skills in Spanish before they can switch back and forth with no problem. For what I’ve seen (like my husband, for example) if they are fluent in Spanish by age 10, they will not forget. I am not an expert in the subject, so I recommend you inquire more before you make any decision. You’ve come so far, keep it up and you’ll do a great service to your children. Good luck!

]]> By: Roxana S. http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/05/week-of-spanglishbaby-moms-perdida-in-translation/#comment-22572 Roxana S. Thu, 05 May 2011 21:02:02 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=11885#comment-22572 Carla, I thought this easy was so insightful. Thanks for sharing it with all of us. I know there are a lot of moms out there doing exactly the same thing you’re doing and I applaud you because I’m pretty sure it must be hard.

I feel the same way but the other way around. While I came to this country as a teenager and my life has evolved in English, Spanish is still the language with which I identify the most and in which I feel most comfortable. I constantly worry about the day when my kids get old enough that all they’ll want to hear from me will be English and how strange I’m going to feel doing that.

BTW, what is fututo?

]]> By: BethO http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/05/week-of-spanglishbaby-moms-perdida-in-translation/#comment-22392 BethO Tue, 03 May 2011 12:57:36 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=11885#comment-22392 I also think you can share your favorite children’s books with your daughters in English and still speak to them in Spanish. If it causes them to start trying to talk to you in English I think you can just explain they still need to speak to you in Spanish so they can learn.
Most of the lullabies I sing to my son are in my native tongue English but there are some that I have learned in Spanish just because I thought they were so beautiful. I think what that teaches a child is that we can take what we like the best for us, and that being bilingual offers them a double serving of the best stuff.
Anyway as your daughters grow older they will need “inputs” in Spanish besides you and sus abuelas. It’s just the way kids are: if you and their grandparents are their only source of Spanish they may not see how Cool it is.

]]> By: Blanca P. http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/05/week-of-spanglishbaby-moms-perdida-in-translation/#comment-22382 Blanca P. Tue, 03 May 2011 06:39:49 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=11885#comment-22382 Love this post..thank you for your reflection..it really made me think about whether or not I am not exposing my whole self to my kids by deciding to only speak in Spanish to them…

]]> By: Carla http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/05/week-of-spanglishbaby-moms-perdida-in-translation/#comment-22369 Carla Tue, 03 May 2011 02:05:52 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=11885#comment-22369 How great for your teenager to have so many diverse influences in her life.

My relationship with my mom deserves it’s own blog but it’s something I’m working on. Writing this was a big “aha” moment. Thanks for your suggestion =)

]]> By: Carla http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/05/week-of-spanglishbaby-moms-perdida-in-translation/#comment-22368 Carla Tue, 03 May 2011 02:03:46 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=11885#comment-22368 Yes, I see my mother with new eyes now that I’m someone’s mami. It is wonderful and insightful everyday.

]]> By: Carla http://spanglishbaby.com/2011/05/week-of-spanglishbaby-moms-perdida-in-translation/#comment-22367 Carla Tue, 03 May 2011 02:02:19 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=11885#comment-22367 I love the two souls/one vibrant multi-personality =) Sometimes I just need the right way to frame things. Gracias =)

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