Teaching a child thats just learning to speak, spanish and english.?
July 5, 2010 - 9:43 pm
Im pregnant at the time and want to teach my child both spanish and english. My partner speaks English, I speak english and spanish. I heard one parent should speak spanish and the other english at all times..Does anyone know if this works or a better way of doing it??
I think it’s great that your child will be bilingual!!
A friend of mine spoke in both English and Spanish to her child (even when she was still pregnant with her) – and they say that teaching them young is the best time to teach them.
They’ll pick up on it faster – and remember it all their life!
What a great gift to your child!
July 6th, 2010 at 3:29 am
I think it’s great that your child will be bilingual!!
A friend of mine spoke in both English and Spanish to her child (even when she was still pregnant with her) – and they say that teaching them young is the best time to teach them.
They’ll pick up on it faster – and remember it all their life!
What a great gift to your child!
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July 6th, 2010 at 3:46 am
i was raised speaking spanish. my mom and dad both speak it but my dad would always speak english to me. but for some reaso my primary language since small was spanish and when i got to school i learned english so easily. my cousins kids are the same. their mom only speaks enlglish and the dad speaks both but they are thaught spanish first and by the time they are 3 they know both languages.
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July 6th, 2010 at 3:57 am
I speak both Greek and English to my daughter. So does my husband. My parents and in laws speak only Greek to her. She is 21/2 and now speaks and understands both. You have to do it from the beginning.
Good Luck
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July 6th, 2010 at 4:05 am
Whatever is the language of the country you live in – your child will learn this automatically, as he/she will be surrounded by it all the time and pick it up naturally. So I would suggest speaking to your child mostly in the other language (Spanish?). My children have an Italian father, and we live in a country that speaks English. Unfortunately, they did not learn Italian because I as the mother do not speak Italian…
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July 6th, 2010 at 4:24 am
I think either way works, but in your case you should speak Spanish at all times. My brother only talks eEnglish to his daughter and teaches her some Tagalog words, his wife talks to her in English and Vietnamese. She also knows Spanish from watching Dora! My husband had both his parents speak English and Tagalog to him.
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July 6th, 2010 at 4:33 am
I am also bilingual and my husband speaks English and enough Spanish to get by. We too had heard about the one parent, one lanuage approach and have pretty much tried to stick to that although I do speak plenty of English to my daughter. We started this from the day she was born and today she is 14 months old and understands and speaks both languages equally well. She says some things in Spanish and some in English and tends to understand requests in either language although I have noticed that because she spends most of the time with me at home she tends to say more things in Spanish. That does not concern us since she’ll get plenty of practice with my husband as she gets older. We had heard that by introducing 2 languages at once it would slightly delay her speech while she was trying to process both early on but we have found that to not be the case perhaps because she also knows baby sign language which is supposed to, in part, accelerate speech. Congrats and good luck! Whatever you decide don’t lose the Spanish, she or he will thank you later!
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Experience with my own daughter.
July 6th, 2010 at 4:39 am
yeh that is great exercise for this child’s brain. if you speak fully spanish and your partner speaks in english that would be the best because a childs brain is like a sponge. please don’t listen to the ignorant people that you will meet and say that you are confussing the child………that’s just bull. my daughter speaks two languages fluentally and she is only 4 and i will always continue to keep it up……..good luck with the baby.
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