Traveling to Puerto Rico has never been a “big” deal until now! Our child has been to Puerto Rico many times before. However, this trip was important. It would be our son’s first full Spanish travel immersion trip. Street in Old San Juan in Puerto Rico “Mommy, is everything inRead More →
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” ~ Augustinus As a multicultural familia, multilingualism and travel go very much hand in hand since the target language that I’m teaching our child is Spanish, hence being the minority. Therefore, my mother who lives inRead More →
Spanish Language Immersion Graduation Finally my little man has “graduated” from his Spring Spanish language immersion lessons. His graduation was not your traditional “graduation.” It was more of a presentation for the parents from the children to assess the progress during their Spanish language immersion lessons. The instructor and the childrenRead More →
Milestones At 4 yrs. old my son has reached numerous milestones in learning to be bilingual. He’s constantly asking how do you say this or that in Spanish, he’s conjugating sentences, he asks to watch his favorite cartoons in Spanish, he sings songs in Spanish, he has also asked forRead More →
Our Journey into Spanish Immersion Classes Photo credit: Clip art on Office online As a bilingual mother trying to raise a bilingual child in an English monolingual environment has been challenging. However, my hopes and dreams of raising a bilingual child have been rekindled by both the opportunity to enrollRead More →
I must admit that listening to my child say, “Mommy I know Spanish” is music to my ears, though far from reality I know he still has a long way to go. This past week I was on the phone rambling in Spanish with my sister from Puerto Rico, andRead More →