http://spanglishbaby.com/ask-an-expert/ask-an-expert-is-what-i-am-doing-enough-for-my-daughter-to-speak-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/ask-an-expert/ask-an-expert-is-what-i-am-doing-enough-for-my-daughter-to-speak-spanish/#comment-3591 Rupa Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:39:54 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=6877#comment-3591 Thank you for posting this question and your response to it. It’s very valuable advice. I like how you stress that it’s not as important to be perfect and try to do it all at once, as it is to simply create the environment that nurtures the love of learning both languages. We speak an Indian language at home which my 3-yr old is fluent in. She picks up English from daycare. I try exposing her to a second Indian language occasionally using songs and simple sentences…and she doesn’t really understand or speak the language but recognizes the language when I say something in it. I know some friends whose preschoolers are fluent in two Indian languages besides Ensglish, simply because they use both equally at home. As the article says, simply being aware of the value of exposing our kids to various languages and putting in some effort in that direction is more than what most of us are able to do.
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]]> http://spanglishbaby.com/ask-an-expert/ask-an-expert-is-what-i-am-doing-enough-for-my-daughter-to-speak-spanish/#comment-3588 Karen Nemeth Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:22:27 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=6877#comment-3588 This is great advice! I couldn’t have said it better myself! There’s no such thing as “enough” or “not enough”. You are giving your child a wonderful gift, but you are not completely in control of how it will all turn out. So, relax and enjoy!

]]> http://spanglishbaby.com/ask-an-expert/ask-an-expert-is-what-i-am-doing-enough-for-my-daughter-to-speak-spanish/#comment-3587 Elizabeth Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:56:32 +0000 http://www.spanglishbaby.com/?p=6877#comment-3587 This post is a great reminder for me! I’m not a native Spanish speaker but am fairly fluent after learning it as an adult and living in Uruguay and Mexico for 5 years. I get upset sometimes thinking about how I only manage to speak Spanish to the kids less than 50% of the time – it’s hard since it’s not my first language, and we no longer live in a Spanish speaking country. I need to focus on the positive and realize how much better it is to do some than none….

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