Comments on: ‘Alphabet Woof’ Bilingual Book for Kids Review https://byclaudya.com/my-bilingual-challenge/ Funny San Francisco Latina Blogger Sat, 25 Mar 2017 04:09:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: gaelikaa https://byclaudya.com/my-bilingual-challenge/#comment-3187 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:29:33 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=439#comment-3187 I am Irish, so English speaking. I'm married to a Hindi-speaking man and living with his family. Our kids attend English speaking schools. At home they speak English with me and Hindi with papa and his family.

It's worked out so far. They prefer are excellent in both.

]]> By: imperfect momma https://byclaudya.com/my-bilingual-challenge/#comment-3185 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:27:31 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=439#comment-3185 I am spanish as well and actually the opposite of you. I was never taught spanish by my parents and only received the rudimentary training in school. Now with my son I wish to learn it so – like you said – he would be able to learn spanish as well.

]]> By: oceangirl415 https://byclaudya.com/my-bilingual-challenge/#comment-3145 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:19:37 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=439#comment-3145 It is not easy but you can do it. And later she has to keep it up too. There is no bigger value than to be able to speak more than one language.

]]> By: Kristin_The_Goat https://byclaudya.com/my-bilingual-challenge/#comment-3141 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:40:44 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=439#comment-3141 Children who learn a second language as children tend to be able to pick up languages easier than those like me that just know English and Bon Jour! I know Adios, too, come to think of it. How great that you are reading her books in Spanish. You are so great 🙂

]]> By: deborahpucci https://byclaudya.com/my-bilingual-challenge/#comment-3137 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:23:58 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=439#comment-3137 I never learned a language. I think what you are doing is important for her and it will help her in the future.

]]> By: Lindsay https://byclaudya.com/my-bilingual-challenge/#comment-3134 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:16:19 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=439#comment-3134 I can't imagine how hard it would be to only speak Spanish to a child in a bilingual home. Good luck! You are giving your daughter a great gift!

]]> By: Pammy Pam https://byclaudya.com/my-bilingual-challenge/#comment-3131 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:43:13 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=439#comment-3131 Mami
I lived in Texas for 10 years and feel a special kinship to my Latina sisters. I tried to learn Spanish and become a bilingual teacher but it got too hard (or I'm too old to learn a new language). Anyway, because of that, I have a rather long list of bilingual books and resources that might help you. If you are interested, please email me and I will forward them to you!

]]> By: Lindyloumac https://byclaudya.com/my-bilingual-challenge/#comment-3127 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:34:34 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=439#comment-3127 Don't give up on this challenge as to be bi-lingual is one of the greatest gifts anyone can have I think.
I love living in Italy but the language is always going to be a challenge. I can speak enough but I would oh so love to be fluent.

]]> By: unknownmami https://byclaudya.com/my-bilingual-challenge/#comment-3126 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:20:35 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=439#comment-3126 I'm sorry to be such a pain in the butt, but you know I treasure your visits.

]]> By: Steven Anthony https://byclaudya.com/my-bilingual-challenge/#comment-3125 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:44:54 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=439#comment-3125 ok, I found ya…I think Im following you now….I hope this makes you show up in my blog roll now 😉

]]> By: The Absence of Alternatives https://byclaudya.com/my-bilingual-challenge/#comment-3117 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:41:35 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=439#comment-3117 My hat's off to you! The “One Parent One Language” rule is really the way to go if you want to raise bi-lingual kids in a country that is mono-lingual. People in Europe grow up with multiple languages all at once with no problem at all. I tried with my oldest and I gave up when he was 3. Not having anybody that speaks Chinese around me makes it really really hard, and mind-draining too. The tragedy is that my kids will not be able to communicate with my families at all. I may go to hell for this.

]]> By: Mrs4444 https://byclaudya.com/my-bilingual-challenge/#comment-3104 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:11:04 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=439#comment-3104 That's awesome. Good for you, and good for Unknown Baby–Learning the Spanish language is a great gift to give her. 🙂

]]> By: Michelle from Honest & Truly! https://byclaudya.com/my-bilingual-challenge/#comment-3099 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:23:36 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=439#comment-3099 I love that you're raising her to be bilingual. I wish I could do that with my wee ones. We tried to get into the dual language program in our district for both of them, but it was full and we never made it off the wait list. *sigh*

FYI if you're looking for cheaper books in Spanish, I've found Scholastic to be a great resource. The preschool I was at the PTO for has a huge Spanish speaking population (>40%), so we did a lot of work trying to find good Spanish titles for them!

]]> By: carma https://byclaudya.com/my-bilingual-challenge/#comment-3094 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:35:05 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=439#comment-3094 I bet she will be grateful in years to come that you taught her Spanish. It is such a valuable “skill” to be able to speak it — especially when it comes to future employment.

I have zero knack with picking up new languages, but my son has been taking Spanish for years and he is a “natural” – which makes me happy to see 🙂

]]> By: Curlyhairdoideas https://byclaudya.com/my-bilingual-challenge/#comment-3093 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:19:52 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=439#comment-3093 I know!! I want to teach my daughter some spanish too, but it is soo hard!! Not to mention neither hubby or I actually speak it. and really the only people around here who do are high school kids who are taking it in school! and then they only use it during that hour! ahhhh! I just think it would be such a great gift though!! I'm still trying. I'm working toward building her library up with books and movies and I'm using livemocha.com when I can, as well as my english-spanish dictionary! sigh. Oh well. Some is better than none!! (another idea I was just given, which I need to look into, is to get a regular babysitter who is probably one of those high school kids, who would ONLY speak to her in spanish.)

Thanks for the book rec. 🙂

I just heard a story of a family who was living in France when their little one was learning to talk, so they only spoke French to him. But they spoke English to each other. When they moved back to the states they realized that their child didn't speak English!! 🙂 He'd just learned to tune mom and dad out when they talked to each other!! 😀 LOL I thought that was kinda cute. 🙂

]]> By: Rebecca https://byclaudya.com/my-bilingual-challenge/#comment-3091 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:52:41 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=439#comment-3091 I'm working on unfollowing you so I can follow you again…..Trust me, it's hard. I'm not that smart.

]]> By: Lifeisaphoenix https://byclaudya.com/my-bilingual-challenge/#comment-3092 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:51:46 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=439#comment-3092 I think it's great you're doing this for her. I would love to have learned at a younger age. Good for you!

]]> By: MsBabyPlan https://byclaudya.com/my-bilingual-challenge/#comment-3090 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:38:39 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=439#comment-3090 I am sure Unknown Baby will love speaking the caliente language :).

Wow, I have a big task when I am Mama then. Because I have been brought up speaking three different languages.

In an ideal world I would like to teach my litttle ones how to speak Ghanaian and Italian. I was raised in a household in which I spoke Ghanaian with my mother, Italian with my brother. When I was with my friends I spoke in Italian and the same at school.

Then I met my Hubby who is English.

Now, my dream is to let my future children learn Ghanaian in this way they can speak with Ghanaian relatives. Also I want them to learn Italian so they can find it easy to travel to Italy. English will be must due to their father, English relatives and school.

I have to find a way to do that in due course ;).

]]> By: TechnoBabe https://byclaudya.com/my-bilingual-challenge/#comment-3089 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:36:48 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=439#comment-3089 Great story. I think your daughter will some day be grateful for your decision to help her learn two languages. When two of my grandkids came back from a family vacation one time they were so anxious to tell me about watching Scooby Doo and they were able to understand the Spanish words because they were learning English and Spanish in their home. We ran around singing Donde Esta Scooby Doo for weeks after that.

]]> By: modernmami https://byclaudya.com/my-bilingual-challenge/#comment-3088 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:16:12 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=439#comment-3088 I can completely relate. Although I grew up in a Spanish-speaking household, I've lived in the states since I was 8. So, I had all my education in English, worked professionally in English, and my husband speaks English. It takes a lot of effort to “switch” my brain to speak Spanish to her – it just doesn't flow as naturally as English does, unfortunately.

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