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Hi Monica,

¡Bienvenida!  We're glad you found us and joined this growing community.  It always feels good to know our challenges aren't only ours.

There's been many posts on the issue you're having, especially as questions to our Experts.  This would be an excellent question for our experts.  Would you mind if we use it?

The basic advice would be to incorporate Spanish into as many fun activities you can in their lives.  Try to have them watch movies with the Spanish language audio track (most have this option in the Set up menu), listen to Spanish music, read books in Spanish, etc.  But most important would be for them to have playmates that speak Spanish fluently and that somehow they would speak it together when playing.  It becomes a bit more difficult in your situation because you could say your language is being "outnumbered" 3 to 1, so it's really a strong commitment you need to make to find and engage in those meaningful activities with them.

Another advice is to have "Spanish-only days".  It could be on a weekend when everything you do centers on your cultural roots and language.  You can cook, watch a movie, go to a museum or event, etc and make it a full-on learning experience.

These are just my thoughts, I'm sure the experts can give you more specific advice.  The rest of the SB community also has great insights!

Regarding the classes in your area, we have an area in the forum called "Playgroups" which is divided by regions and it's the place for  you to post about referrals on classes, playgroups, etc or to put a call-out to start your own.

Hope this helps!

Ana Lilian

Wow! Monica, Chelsea, and Gladys,

I sure hope you guys can get together!

Let us know how it goes, please!