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Old Mar 15th, 2012, 18:20 PM   #11
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We live in Texas so for Kenneth to be bilingual English/Spanish that would just be awesome. Thankfully OH and his family are Mexican so they speak Spanish pretty fluently as well as English, but they're constantly talking in Spanish to him, which is nice because I'd LOVE for him to be bilingual.
They still learn amy! I speak english to my kids and OH speaks spanish to them and somehow they speak both spanish and english
That's awesome. I'm glad to hear a success story! I've always been told to teach them from the beginning since it's easier for them to understand. I'll be soooooo proud if he knows Spanish


 
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Old Mar 15th, 2012, 18:43 PM   #12
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I was hoping i'd know a lot more Japanese than I do at this point...But thats what I aim to teach Syri and possibly Mandarin after. I took three years of Mandarin (but probably more equivalent to 1.5years cos the teacher was new and easily pushed around) so one day i do want to take it back up and I just have a love affair with Japanese. She'll probably be teaching me by the time i get around to being serious about learning cos I play a lot of movies in japanese for her (she loves Ponyo, Howls Moving Castle etc), and i try to play mostly all japanese music around her. She has a few toddler learning apps too.


 
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Old Mar 15th, 2012, 19:04 PM   #13
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the only other language i know is french and that not fluent at all. I've forgotten alot of it since school.


 
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Old Mar 15th, 2012, 19:13 PM   #14
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she loves Ponyo
Oh gosh, Ponyo is one of my biggest guilty pleasures.

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I wish I had stuck with speaking Japanese with Nathaniel but I think it would be too odd now to switch some in as he is used to my English. Might try a bit harder than the first few months with baby number 2.

Nathaniel screams when I put my music on as he has decided he likes rap music And he would never pay attention to a movie or the tv so he will never have any exposure there.

Quite a lot of soon-to-be bilingual children by the looks of it! As a language major (German and Spanish, not too exciting there) I find it quite exciting


 
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Old Mar 15th, 2012, 19:32 PM   #15
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My whole family speaks Spanish so do I but I always go back to English
Sometimes it's a mix of both
I call it spanglish which is what my boys speak A mix of spanish and english
Lol same I call it Spanglish too lol
She can say very few Spanish words though we sometimes watch Dora in Spanish


 
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Old Mar 15th, 2012, 20:18 PM   #16
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she loves Ponyo
Oh gosh, Ponyo is one of my biggest guilty pleasures.

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I wish I had stuck with speaking Japanese with Nathaniel but I think it would be too odd now to switch some in as he is used to my English. Might try a bit harder than the first few months with baby number 2.

Nathaniel screams when I put my music on as he has decided he likes rap music And he would never pay attention to a movie or the tv so he will never have any exposure there.

Quite a lot of soon-to-be bilingual children by the looks of it! As a language major (German and Spanish, not too exciting there) I find it quite exciting
I've actually heard a few Japanese Rap songs xD



 
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Old Mar 15th, 2012, 20:47 PM   #17
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my OH's family speaks to her in spanish, but shell prob know english first cuz of my family d:


 
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Old Mar 15th, 2012, 21:51 PM   #18
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We speak English but live in China so shell go to a Chinese kindergarten and hopefully learn there. shell have lots of opportunities to practice and im going to try learn too.


 
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Old Mar 16th, 2012, 03:18 AM   #19
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My next plan is to learn spanish i would love to stick At it, i done german at school but just enough to pass a standard grade and forgot it all i think


 
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Old Mar 16th, 2012, 07:04 AM   #20
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Aria won't really "speak" another language, but I sign ASL (American Sign Language) to her constantly, because I can sign and speak English to her at the same time. My mom is hard of hearing, so LO sees a lot of signing. My DH took four years of ASL in high school, too (which is the class we met ).

I'm hoping she will pick up on the signs as she grows, but I don't expect her to learn the sentence structure just by watching me, because it can be pretty confusing.


 
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