Tips for Motivating Language Learning in Pre-Teens
2017-02-21
The days of sing-along and finger-puppet play to learn a new language are long behind us.Read More →
Language Immersion Piece by Piece
2016-04-07
We’ve all heard of the proven benefits of speaking a second language, and that high proficiency can be acquired in an immersion setting but that’s not always possible. Especially when the second language is the minority one. As a parent raising a bilingual child what to do? Immersion environment atRead More →
Online Resources for Raising Bilingual Kids
2016-01-10
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
2015-11-07
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
2015-08-26
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 →