We are somewhat settling into life with an infant and have managed to figure out how to write again.
Can you tell I went blog posting happy? Check out my most recent three postings! I’d love to hear your thoughts and opinions.
Saludos
We are somewhat settling into life with an infant and have managed to figure out how to write again.
Can you tell I went blog posting happy? Check out my most recent three postings! I’d love to hear your thoughts and opinions.
Saludos
Hi Suzanne! I am Mamen, a Spanish mother of a 1-year-old lovely baby-girl.
I found your blog at Spanglishbaby and I wanted to tell you that I love it.
I’m very interested in bilingualism and trilingualism too. I live in a bilingual community (Spanish and Catalan) and of course I want my daughter to become bilingual, which I think she will do without a doubt.
But I also want her to learn English and become trilingual. I consider myself sort of trilingual, because I speak Catalan and Spanish as my mother tongues, plus English, which I started learning when I was a little girl at school, and which I try to practice as much as I can.
My problem is that I don’t feel confident enough on my English to pass it on to my baby. It’s not my mother tongue, so my phonetics are not native ones, and I obviously make grammar or vocabulary mistakes. Nevertheless, I try to teach her some English through games, songs or watching some English cartoons.
I wish you loads of luck with your plans to have a trilingual daughter and congratulations for being a new mum!
Saludos
Mamen
Hi Mamen,
I know how you feel. Sometimes I feel the same way about my Spanish. Thanks for the comment. My husband and I visited Catalunya summer of ’09. We LOVED Barcelona and especially Girona.
Good luck in your trilingual journey friend! I wish you the best, too.
Suzanne
I’m in Austin, TX and I’m wondering if you can refer me to a spanish tutor. My sons are in the dual language (english/spanish) program in AISD and I need to get them some additional help in spanish. This is the first year for the program in AISD and the school can’t provide a benchmark of any kind to indicate whether my kids are learning anything in spanish or where they should be. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Shae
Hi Shae,
I’m writing you an e-mail.