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Teaching Your Child Spanish: Moving from Single Words to Sentences

Teaching Your Child Spanish: Moving from Single Words to Sentences

We’ve been teaching the kids Spanish words since they were babies. We got a slew of bilingual board books, and other resources and have had them work with a teacher who speaks the language fluently. If you’re just getting started teaching your child Spanish, you’ll want to start with this post: “Teaching Your Child Spanish: Getting Started” We reached a… Read More

Product Reviews, Spanish, Teaching Toddlers, Workbooks 2

Teaching Your Child Spanish: Getting Started

Teaching Your Child Spanish: Getting Started

Teaching your child words in a second language isn’t as daunting as it sounds.  Below are some resources that we used with our kids, starting as young as a few months old. {Raising a child to be completely bilingual is VERY, very hard unless one of you speak the second language well and use it all the time– or if… Read More

Spanish, Teaching Toddlers 2

“Puedo Tener” – A Spanish Word Game for Kids

“Puedo Tener” – A Spanish Word Game for Kids

This is a super easy, hands-on way to learn the colors in Spanish! This game works for teaching, or for review. “Puedo tener” translates to “May I have”.   This game challenges kids to ask for a specific color using a full sentence in Spanish.    They will be saying “May I have blue”, “May I have pink”, etc…but they will… Read More

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Bilingual Resources for Teaching Babies & Toddlers Spanish – for the English Speaking Parent

Bilingual Resources for Teaching Babies & Toddlers Spanish – for the English Speaking Parent

First of all, if you haven’t read my post, “How Kids Learn – 5 surprising differences between adults and children”, make sure you go read that 🙂 In this post, I just want to share with you all our favorite board books, CDs, apps, etc for learning Spanish. Before I get started, let me answer the “Why” question, and the… Read More

Product Reviews, Spanish, Teaching Toddlers 3

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