Comments on: Getting my Husband to Speak More Spanish to Our Kids

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By: Sandra

Sandra — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:21:26 +0000

I’m trying to get my husband to speak more Spanish with our son too. ( He was raised by his Guatemalan Mother and Grandmother who spoke only Spanish in the home until he was 6.) I learned Spanish in college and am very much like your husband. I want it to be perfect. I’m afraid of messing up. I think that’s why conversation is the hardest for me. Then one day it dawned on me that I have to speak Spanish for my son. I’m his primary caregiver (my husband is in the military and gone a lot) and he’s not going to learn it unless he hears it. So, I stepped up and now speak mostly Spanish to him. I may have to look things up every once in a while, but that just means I’m learning too!

By: Tracey

Tracey — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:06:38 +0000

My husband speaks Spanish but feels a bit self-conscious around our bilingual big kids (20/21) and so only uses it a wee bit. We will soon be living back in NZ leaving the big kids in Bolivia for university studies and so I hope he will feel better about speaking Spanish with the littlies (5,5) as it is their sibling language and with Spanish church we hope to keep it up even though they will be thrown for the first time into an English dominant environment. We have always spoken both languages to them since they were babies but now we need to try and stick to Spanish only and let the English come naturally (I couldn’t say which is their heart language).

By: claudia

claudia — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:16:26 +0000

Enjoyed reading your article, I strugge with creating a bilingual environment at home. My husband is African American and does not speak very much Spanish. I have a 9 yr old and a 3 yr old (soon turning 4) and the four year old has adapted more to the Spanish language–I find it a struggle because I am the only bilingual person at home and at work…I’m working on it:)

By: Maria Jose @verybusymama

Maria Jose @verybusymama — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 04:30:03 +0000

That is fantastic! And great to know your daughter is eager to learn more – it’s sad when kids shy away from another language, but like you said it is about the encouragement. They more the feel a natural incline to it, they more they will want to practice and feel confident to continue. Best of luck with your son – as long as he hears it around him it won’t be a complete shock later.

By: Candi

Candi — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 05:04:24 +0000

Loved your article. I used to get weird looks from people when they’d ask me if my daughter was bilingual and my response would be, “No.” They didn’t let me finish saying, “Not yet.” You see, Spanish is my first language and my wife is white. The only times that my daughter would get any type of Spanish lessons was when she was around my Spanish speaking mother. I guess I did it so that she would grow up and get a hunger and love for the language. When she was about nine, I took her for the first time to my home country of Mexico. We spent about two weeks. You would have thought we were there a couple of years. My daughter had no choice but to learn the language “fast” because nobody else spoke English. She fell in love with the language and the country. She is now thirteen years old and almost fluent. She understands it and speaks it very well. We had another child three years ago and I plan on doing the same thing with him.