Comments on: Expose Your Kids to Spanish in These Unlikely Places http://spanglishbaby.com/2013/01/expose-your-kids-to-spanish-in-these-unlikely-places/ Raising bilingual and bicultural kids Thu, 26 Jul 2018 07:12:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: Sunocean18 http://spanglishbaby.com/2013/01/expose-your-kids-to-spanish-in-these-unlikely-places/#comment-251379 Sunocean18 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 06:18:29 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=32356#comment-251379 These are great suggestions. It’s important for us to take our kids to hispanic grocery stores, like Cardenas (in Southern CA) etc so that they are exposed to people who are speaking Spanish. It’s amazing how their eyes light up when they hear someone else speak Spanish. Recently, we took our 3 year old to Disneyland, and every time he would hear the PA announcements in Spanish, he would get super excited and say “Mira mama, aqui tambien hablan español.”

]]> By: Beth Ortuño http://spanglishbaby.com/2013/01/expose-your-kids-to-spanish-in-these-unlikely-places/#comment-249969 Beth Ortuño Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:35:45 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=32356#comment-249969 I found people to help me learn Spanish in Dayton, Ohio and this was some time ago. So I think by this day and age there must be very very few places now where you could not do a little searching and be persistent, and find a little store or restaurant where there are people who speak whatever language you’re doing. Remember if people grew up in this country they probably have ZERO accent speaking English and you may be surprised how many people are speaking whatever other languages at home that you never knew. You have to ask. Everybody was very positive toward me and really since I did not have time or money for formal classes or travel, asking total strangers to help me a few minutes with this little thing or that little thing was how I learned. Especially at first… some strangers become friends :-)

]]> By: Roxana A. Soto http://spanglishbaby.com/2013/01/expose-your-kids-to-spanish-in-these-unlikely-places/#comment-249851 Roxana A. Soto Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:11:08 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=32356#comment-249851 That’s the way to do it, Kathy! If the staff already knows you, then it’s even better because the conversations can be totally different and a bit more personal. Keep at it!

]]> By: Roxana A. Soto http://spanglishbaby.com/2013/01/expose-your-kids-to-spanish-in-these-unlikely-places/#comment-249848 Roxana A. Soto Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:09:58 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=32356#comment-249848 Storytime is always a great idea and you just reminded me that I haven’t taken my kids in a while. Vanessa is a bit older now and doesn’t enjoy it as much, but Santiago is only 3 and he still loves it. How cool that your library does the Lotería game once a month!

Yes, mercardos are a great option because she’ll get to hear a lot of Spanish being spoken and she gets to practice her own too!

]]> By: Kathy Sykes http://spanglishbaby.com/2013/01/expose-your-kids-to-spanish-in-these-unlikely-places/#comment-249177 Kathy Sykes Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:48:27 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=32356#comment-249177 I agree with all of these options. I encourage my son to use the Spanish words that he knows when we frequent our favorite Mexican restaurant and because we know a lot of the staff, we ask them to speak to him in Spanish.

]]> By: John http://spanglishbaby.com/2013/01/expose-your-kids-to-spanish-in-these-unlikely-places/#comment-249129 John Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:23:00 +0000 http://spanglishbaby.com/?p=32356#comment-249129 Those are all great ideas. Our library has a Spanish story hour once a month, as well as a monthly Lotería game my daughter and I have attended. I should frequent the mercados in town more often with my daughter!

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