Raising bilingual children in the United States can be challenging, but having a plan in place, significantly increases your chance for success. If you are not lucky enough to have a bilingual school to support you, creativity and effort are necessary to help your child acquire Spanish. In my head there was always an informal idea on how I would raise my children to speak Spanish, but now that they are in preschool, I am re-evaluating my action plan. ToRead More ...
A Solid Plan for Raising Bilingual Children
SpanglishBaby Interviewed on Vme’s TuBebe
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWAnh_TxQmo&feature=channel_video_title We will always jump at the chance to be invited to talk about our favorite topic of all times: Raising bilingual and bicultural kids and the rewards and challenges that come with it. One of our constant partners and promoters is Vme TV. We have been organically writing about Vme ever since we launched, even before they believed enough in us and you to sponsor SpanglishBaby, because we´ve always believed they have the best free educational programming for Spanish-speakingRead More ...
Bilingualism in the Media
While some of you might have read these articles from the links we recently posted on our Facebook page or tweeted about from our Twitter account, I figured that, in case you missed it, it’d be nice to compile the latest media content regarding bilingualism in just one post. So if you didn’t get to read any of these, here’s your chance to find out what the latest studies say about bilingualism. (Hint: we’re on the right track!) From TheRead More ...
Video of the Week| La Gallina Turuleca
The idea behind posting a different video, podcast or song every week is to give you easy access to fun media in Spanish to share with your kids. Soon enough, we’ll have such a great collection under one click for you to entertain your kid in español for a while–which might give you enough time to make dinner! I admit I tend to get a bit nostalgic when it comes to sharing Spanish-language music with Camila. I rely a lotRead More ...