About: Ana Flores

I’ve always been pretty disappointed with the lack of options there is when it comes to greeting cards in Spanish. Unfortunately, so many companies don’t seem to understand that using an online translator just doesn’t cut it. Enter: Cultúrame – Feel the Culture! a bilingual greeting card company, the brainchild of Debra Del Toro-Phillips. Cultúrame – gotta love the name! – was born when Debra decided to combine her experience doing fundraising work and her creative self-expression into a businessRead More ...

Thus far, I have written a lot about my struggles and successes in speaking Spanish with Isaiah, but very little about his use of and exposure to English. While there are distinctions in his life between the people with whom he speaks each language, he has a peculiar mix of input methods because he has two houses with two distinctive language setups. Last year, when Isaiah and I moved in with my mother, he began getting daily exposure to English,Read More ...

Here’s a cute singalong music video featuring Baby Abuelita’s characters that will get you all bailando y cantando. Watch the video and then head over to our review of Baby Abuelita’s Javier doll and enter for your chance to win one of your own. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P69hRWLDsJg ...

Editor’s note: This post was originally published here on Nov. 11th, 2009. While I was registering to get the H1N1 vaccine this weekend at the local high school, the lady who was taking in the forms very politely asked if I’d rather get the information in Spanish. (I guess she’d overheard us while we were making the line.) I, also very politely, answered that it didn’t matter because I was bilingual. I don’t know if, at first, she didn’t understandRead More ...

When Javier arrived at my door, I was curious to see what my son would do. I pulled this adorable little doll out of the box and Isaiah smirked. He seemed curious,but confused, until I squeezed Javier’s hand and he started singing a familiar song: “Había una vez un barquito chiquitito….” That was all it took for my boy to become a fan of dolls. Javier, the latest in the line of plush dolls from Baby Abuelita Productions, sings fiveRead More ...

Lately, one of the things I´m finding really difficult to control about my personality is the impulse to want to ask every single bilingual Mom I meet if their children are also bilingual.  That´s why I couldn´t resist the offer to sit down with Minerva, co-host of Vme´s TuBebé show, to talk about her 2-year old boy and how she works to keep both language and culture alive at home. The interview is in Spanish. We apologize it does notRead More ...