Supporting you and your child on your language learning journey
When my daughter was 3 I remember being so worried that she would never be able to roll her r’s. I had no idea how to teach her to do that and we didn’t have many opportunities for in-person practice with native speakers because we …
Learning Spanish through themes is one of the best ways to make language learning concrete. Being able to talk about your feelings and emotions is an essential tool for language learning. It’s also a great way to connect with your child when learning a new …
New Year, new goals? Right? Maybe one of your New Year’s resolutions this year is to work on your child’s bilingual language skills at home. You can start off the New Year right with these New Year activities for kids in Spanish! I’m always looking …
There are many methods for raising bilingual children. You may have heard of “one parent one language”, “minority language at home”, or “time and place”. As you’re starting out on your bilingual parenting journey, it’s important that you find a bilingual parenting method that works …
One of the times that we practice Spanish each week is in the car. It’s a great way to practice and there are so many ways in which you can make this a passive language learning time or an interactive and conversational learning time! If …
Will teaching my child two languages make them confused? When parents are making a decision about which language or languages to pass on to their children, the topic of ‘confusion’ always comes up. When I decided to teach my daughter Spanish as an infant, I …
As my daughter’s main source of Spanish, I am always looking for activities that we can do around our home to promote the use of Spanish language. Especially now that the school year has started, we’ve gotten into a pattern of doing the same things …
Practicing mindfulness is so important- for adults and children! I started to learn more about it and build a mindfulness practice, for myself and for my daughter, during the onset of the pandemic in 2020. Of course I wanted to find all of the mindfulness …
