http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/12/learning-the-vocabulary-of-childhood-in-spanish/ Raising bilingual and bicultural kids Thu, 26 Jul 2018 07:12:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/12/learning-the-vocabulary-of-childhood-in-spanish/#comment-259254 Linny Fri, 18 Jan 2013 03:25:07 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=32112#comment-259254 She’s talking about a toy, not the tv show. Try reading the topic first before rushing to judgement.

]]> http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/12/learning-the-vocabulary-of-childhood-in-spanish/#comment-240871 Karen Sun, 30 Dec 2012 04:28:43 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=32112#comment-240871 This is little off topic, but Handy Manny? It that a joke? Wouldn’t it be great if every Latino parent just turned off the TV….

]]> http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/12/learning-the-vocabulary-of-childhood-in-spanish/#comment-240309 Casey Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:04:27 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=32112#comment-240309 Absolutely, I’ve found myself able to accommodate all of the vocabulary of infancy from my husband’s home, but then my son began school at a Montessori dual immersion primary school and his teachers are from all over. The little differences in vocabulary have confused me on numerous occasions! I’m constantly reading and studying, hoping to keep up with our son’s fluency.

]]> http://spanglishbaby.com/2012/12/learning-the-vocabulary-of-childhood-in-spanish/#comment-239670 Sunocean18 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:43:11 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=32112#comment-239670 Great post. I think I’m in the same boat. Although I am a native Spanish speaker, I am more proficient in English and feel more comfortable speaking it. But, because we are raising our children bilingual, I speak only Spanish to them at home. There are times we are reading books and I can’t pronounce the words, or worse – my son asks me what an item is and I have no clue. When this happens, I go straight to the dictionary and/or ask my husband, who has stronger Spanish skills. My oldest son is 3, and so far it’s been “easy” speaking to him in Spanish, but now that he talks nonstop and the books we read to him are getting more complicated, I have seen how difficult it’s getting for me. But, like you mention, I wouldn’t trade it for the world because there’s nothing more beautiful than to hear your children speak the language that your grandparents once spoke. Those inconveniences of having to flip through the dictionary are minor to the advantages they are receiving being bilingual.

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