Online Resources for Raising Bilingual Kids
When I started our bilingual journey I was just a momma with a desire to have her son learn Spanish! I didn’t know where to start, and truth be told I was very lost. How, when, where and what to start our bilingual journey? I was clueless! I had soRead More →
My Bilingual Child’s Secret Language: Spanish
Never in my wildest dreams I could imagine writing about my son’s “secret” language: Spanish! When we started our bilingual journey I had my heart and soul in providing for him a Spanish immersion experience. It was an unfathomable feat considering we were living in an exclusive monolingual environment where opportunitiesRead More →
Cultivating our Child’s Heritage Language through Long-Distance Relationships with our Familia
When I moved to the USA, one of the things that my mother and I agreed upon was that we would always visit each other. One year she’d visit, and the following year I’d visit Puerto Rico. Well the I, turned into an us. Married and with a child, nowRead More →
Music and My Bilingual Child
Music has played a big part in my child’s bilingual language learning. I used music to make his language learning exciting, and ¡divertido! When we started our bilingual journey, his exposure to the target language was minimal. Besides reading to him in the minority language, and perusing YouTube forRead More →
It Takes a Village to Raise a Bilingual Child
When I talk about my child’s bilingual journey I often express how I was the “only one” who spoke the heritage language, how we were immersed completely in the community language; and how challenging it was, but in retrospect I realize I didn’t raise a bilingual child by myself… itRead More →