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
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
“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
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