Supporting you and your child on your language learning journey
Listening to music in Spanish is a great way to sneak more Spanish into your day! While listening to music in Spanish is a passive form of learning, there are so many benefits to it. When you listen you can improve your Spanish listening skills, …
Are you at home during the COVID-19 crisis?? Most families are staying safe at home while social distancing due to the current pandemic. Working full time, parenting and teaching your kiddos at home can be overwhelming to say the least. And yet most parents right …
Looking for a great Spanish novel for older kids? This beautifully illustrated novel is perfect! It’s mix of illustrations, poetry and chapters make it easy to read and it’s basis in history makes it relevant to Spanish language and culture. If you are a proficient …
Due to the COVID-19 virus, schools across the nation are closing for weeks, some indefinitely. Parents and children are going to be spending hours a day at home doing remote learning and attempting to fill the hours that school used to take up. If you’re …
As a non-native Spanish speaker, I needed to make sure that my daughter was exposed to a lot of Spanish language. Since we don’t have regular contact with any native Spanish speakers and our community language is English, I’m one of her only sources of …
In a previous post, I brought up the value of listening to podcasts with your child and shared one of my favorite Spanish podcasts. For another great podcast check out this post: A Valuable Spanish Podcast For Kids That You Need To Know About Today …
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About a year ago, there was a great article on BBC Worklife about the amount of time it takes a person to be bilingual in a new language. According to their research and that of the FSI (Foreign Service Institute), a person can be fluent …
I’ve already talked about the importance of nursery rhymes in language development for children- but nursery rhymes are so important and such a great way to boost language and literacy, that I’m coming at you with another post! The last post about nursery rhymes included …
Books are always essential resources in language learning – regardless of the language. Reading to babies and toddlers can be a challenge, though! There are times when long picture books, especially those in a different language, won’t hold their attention. Babies and toddlers also learn …
Reading is an essential part of learning any language and Spanish is no exception. In terms of teaching your child Spanish, reading books is important because it exposes your child to a strong level of vocabulary and grammatically correct sentence structure. It can also expose …