Comments on: My Daughter Is Not As Bilingual As I Thought http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/08/my-daughter-is-not-as-bilingual-as-i-thought/ Raising bilingual and bicultural kids Thu, 26 Jul 2018 07:12:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: http://Url3.ru http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/08/my-daughter-is-not-as-bilingual-as-i-thought/#comment-1157516 http://Url3.ru Sat, 11 Oct 2014 22:13:44 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=26411#comment-1157516 Thanks a loot for sharing this with all peopl you really know what you’re speaking approximately!
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]]> By: Ana Flores http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/08/my-daughter-is-not-as-bilingual-as-i-thought/#comment-380701 Ana Flores Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:24:21 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=26411#comment-380701 It happnes much quicker than you expect. I was so worried she wouldn’t feel comfortable in an all-English environment, but it took her less than a month to make the switch.
Keep us posted!!

]]> By: Mama Sprout http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/08/my-daughter-is-not-as-bilingual-as-i-thought/#comment-380171 Mama Sprout Wed, 24 Jul 2013 22:04:09 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=26411#comment-380171 (English, Hungarian, and Slovak) and preschool is starting in the fall. I’m curious when English will surpass the Hungarian as their better language.

]]> By: Mama Sprout http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/08/my-daughter-is-not-as-bilingual-as-i-thought/#comment-380170 Mama Sprout Wed, 24 Jul 2013 22:00:19 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=26411#comment-380170 This day is coming for me too. We are raising trilingual babes (EnglishPreschool

]]> By: Mexico: Family, Food, Beach and Español | SpanglishBaby™ http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/08/my-daughter-is-not-as-bilingual-as-i-thought/#comment-219808 Mexico: Family, Food, Beach and Español | SpanglishBaby™ Fri, 07 Dec 2012 06:32:24 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=26411#comment-219808 [...] has been doing so well with her Spanish and is actually in a completely different attitude about speaking it here than she was the last time we visited her cousins 4 months ago. She’s definitely trying [...]

]]> By: Alex http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/08/my-daughter-is-not-as-bilingual-as-i-thought/#comment-209198 Alex Wed, 21 Nov 2012 20:31:19 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=26411#comment-209198 I agree with most comments here. It takes time for them to switch. I took my then 2.5 year old son to Germany this spring to visit the grandparents and it took him almost 2 weeks to switch fully to German. This is with no English exposure whatsoever. Once we got back to the US he maintained the German dominance for many weeks. Then he switched back to preferring English. He’s definitely better at English and has a much larger vocabulary, but for the last few months I have started to not answer if he asks me for something in English and I have made the car a German-only place. I have also bought some DVDs in German and only let him play German apps on the iPad. This has really helped his development. I think setbacks are normal. Soldier on and you’ll have success :)

]]> By: Why Raising a Bilingual Child is Always a Work-In-Progress | SpanglishBaby™ http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/08/my-daughter-is-not-as-bilingual-as-i-thought/#comment-207982 Why Raising a Bilingual Child is Always a Work-In-Progress | SpanglishBaby™ Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:42:36 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=26411#comment-207982 [...] Read: My Daughter is Not as Bilingual as I Thought [...]

]]> By: Kimberlee Thorne-Waintraub http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/08/my-daughter-is-not-as-bilingual-as-i-thought/#comment-197217 Kimberlee Thorne-Waintraub Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:36:06 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=26411#comment-197217 Give your son time to adjust to his new environment. Obviously he’s playing in English, so he’s adjusting to that. My first-grader has gone almost completely into English mode after speaking only Spanish in Argentina, and we’ve now been here in the US for over 6 months. If you want to preserve both languages, you can check out bilingual books in your local library, play songs in Spanish and sing to him. There are also bilingual sites you can subscribe to that will work on both languages. When your parents get here, I’m sure he’ll speak to them in their language (Spanish), but for now he thinks English is cool, since that’s his play language. That’s the way kids work, yet they won’t forget their native tongue. Calm down mommy, as things will work themselves out in the end.

]]> By: Marbely http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/08/my-daughter-is-not-as-bilingual-as-i-thought/#comment-196962 Marbely Wed, 31 Oct 2012 01:24:31 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=26411#comment-196962 Wow, I’m glad I’m not alone in this. I know it sounds awful, but I am starting to get worried, because you see my son story is completely the opposite, yet the same. We moved to the US a year ago when I married my husband. My son only spoke Spanish, he was 5 years old when we got here last September. My husband doesn’t speak Spanish, so I was speaking English after 5 pm and Spanish to my son the rest of the day. He started school in late November and it was kinda hard on him since he didn’t speak any English. Now, I was surprised that in January was doing so great, speaking English to his little friends, to my husband and everything was great. I was happy, my son was finally bilingual.
My parents visited us back in May and he was able to speak to them in Spanish of course. Summer went by and I was as usual jst speaking Spanish to him, and he was also speaking Spanish to me.
Summer was over, he is now a 1st grader. From day 1, after school he didn’t “switch” back to Spanish as usual. I didn’t pay too much attention to it. it’s been 2 months since he started school and now he doesn’t want to speak Spanish to me. I still speak only Spanish to him, and he answers back in English, when I ask him to speak Spanish to me he gets mad, he claims he doesn’t know, and I know he does!!!! It is so frustrating, he speaks to my parents everyday on skype but now he doesn;t even speak Spanish to them. I really don’t know what to do, I can’t control the fact that he is surrounded by English. TV is in English, school is in English and that drives me crazy. I hope that now that my parents are visiting again and he will have his xmas break he will speak more Spanish. But it is hard, frustrating and discouraging.

]]> By: Franck http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/08/my-daughter-is-not-as-bilingual-as-i-thought/#comment-171657 Franck Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:57:10 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=26411#comment-171657 Thank you for sharing Ana.

This summer (August 2012) I was in France with Elena (7) and Pablo (4). We live in NJ and raise our kids with French and Spanish. Several family members told me Elena has a “funny” accent when she speaks in French. Although I did not want to admit it, it is true.

How do I deal with it? I know that Elena’s main language is English. My accent in English is also “funny”, since I am French. It has not prevented me to communicate with people here in the US, on the contrary. If our kids have funny accents in other languages, it will just be another opportunity for them to tell the story about how they were raised.

Franck

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