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Las expectativas de que habla usted de un jefe que quiere que escriba igualmente en dos idiomas sólo muestra la falta de conocimiento que rodea este tema del desarrollo del bilinguismo. Si el señor (o la señora) se diera cuenta de que todos los bilingues no tienen las mismas habilidades en ambos idiomas, eso sería clave de su comprensión. Claro, el jefe puede mandar que usted aprenda las palabras equivalentes (y las conjugaciones de verbos, el sintáxis, etc.), pero esperar que usted ya las sepa no es realista.

Digo todo esto porque me doy cuenta de qué recurso tan maravilloso es este sitio Web–sobre todo y especialmente para los padres que les crian a sus hijos bilingues. Como tal, tenemos que invitarles y darles la bienvenida a más personas como miembros de nuestro “club bilingue”. Así fomentamos el aprendizaje y curiosidad de manera verdaderamente bilingue–usando los recursos linguísticos de ambos idiomas y no cada idioma aislado.

Si tiene cualquier pregunta, ¡me encantaría platicar más!

Either way, I don’t think it’s too late at all. Just keep at it and, as you already know, make sure their exposure to Spanish is as much fun as possible. Are you not doing Spanish Summer?

Good luck and please don’t give up. My suggestion is that you keep speaking to them in Spanish and hopefully they’ll come around…

On another note, I don’t agree that for a bilingual to say they have equal proficiency in both languages is a myth because I consider myself one of them. I was pretty much raised with both languages from a very early age and while I went to a dual language immersion school where English was the dominant language, I lived in a Spanish-dominant country. I have pretty much lived my entire life immersed in both languages and I make a living writing in both on a daily basis… something I wouldn’t be able to do successfully if I didn’t have equal proficiency of both.

In terms of the definition of bilingual, that’s a real tough one and one I’ve struggled with for the past several years. Put it this way, if I put on my resume that I’m bilingual and I get hired by an employer who’s looking for a bilingual writer but when asked to write an article in Spanish (or English) I’m not able to do it without making critical mistakes, (like conjugating verbs) then I wouldn’t be considered a bilingual writer.

A month or two ago we went to an event where a Spanish-language TV station ended up interviewing us. Carlos obviously did great, I did pretty good (I would have made mistakes even in English because I was nervous), and then came the questions for our 10 year old. At home he understands everything I say in Spanish, but he just froze when this guy asked him questions in Spanish, and to my horror, he kept turning to me (I was off camera at this point), and saying in English, “What did he say? Can you just translate it?”

I felt so embarrassed because I had told the TV station people that he was bilingual when they asked me. I only felt marginally better to see that the children of other people they interviewed, (who had TWO native Spanish-speaking parents), didn’t do any better than my son.

Anyway – nothing I can do about it now but keep pushing them along and doing our best. Thanks for the story to kick me in the nalgas and remind me to keep going.