Bilingualism Doesn’t Cause Confusion
After almost 18 months nurturing SpanglishBaby into the incredible useful online resource for those raising bilingual and bicultural children it has become thanks to all our readers, I tend to think that everyone knows about the myths and misconceptions associated with bilingualism (or multilingualism). I guess after such a long time reading, researching and learning about the benefits of bilingualism, it’s easy to forget that not everybody is aware of them. So I was bit surprised last week when IRead More ...
Latino Books Month {Giveaway}
May is almost over, but we still have a few days left to celebrate Latino Books Month! And, in honor of this celebration, we wanted to give all you mamis (and papis) a chance to win a set of books from Hachette Book Group. Con el verano right around the corner, it’s always a great idea to have a few good reads for those lazy summer afternoon en la hamaca, right? So go ahead and check these out! There’s aRead More ...
Our Food, Our Culture-Qué Rica Vida
Part of what we enjoy doing is finding useful resources for your bicultural familia. We feel that one of the most handy tools we have at hand for exploring cultures and languages with children is food and cooking traditional meals. In this category of The Culture of Food we have introduced you to amazing and tasteful cooking blogs with recipes from all over Latin America that celebrate our culture. Today, we want to let you know about a website thatRead More ...
The Eloquence of “Um…” (And Other Nonnative Setbacks)
All parents are familiar with physical exhaustion, but some of us are even better acquainted with mental fatigue. My son, now almost 29 months old, requires more and longer explanations each day, and he is stretching my Spanish abilities to the max. Living in Orlando gives me plenty of practice with conversational Spanish, but spending every waking hour explaining the world in every grammatical tense and with as many particularities as an inquisitive kid requires drains me, to say theRead More ...
Getting a Taste of Culture Miami-Style
As soon as the plane landed in Miami last Wednesday, I called my niece who was waiting for us at the airport and asked if she could takes us directly to Pollo Tropical so I could get my fix of Caribbean fast food. She thought I was kidding because, as they say, you don’t know what you have until you lose it. But I wasn’t. When my husband and I left Miami for the Rocky Mountains four years ago, weRead More ...
Your SpanglishBaby: Paloma & Valentino
Meet Paloma Ximena Cobbs Silva (4 years old) and Valentino Xavier Cobbs Silva (2 years old) from Sacramento, California. Their parents are: Gilda Roxana Cobbs & Scott Cobbs Paloma and Valentino are bilingual and speak Spanish and English Being bilingual has already been a benefit in their life since they are able to communicate with family members on both mother’s and father’s side of the family. ———————— Send us a picture of Your SpanglishBaby and we´ll feature him/her right here.Read More ...
