Also, forcing your kids to take a vacation in a country where the only language spoken is the language they are learning! I used to hate speaking Spanish, but my mom sent me to Nicaragua when I was 6 years old to spend the ENTIRE 3 MONTH SUMMER with my grandparents. Omg did that teach me a lesson. I had to survive somehow lol. My Spanish dramatically improved and now I'm so thankful!
I don’t know why but it hurts when I hear people say “I HATE SPEAKING SPANISH “ it’s different from not knowing... siempre cuando veo a un prietito gordito con el nopal en la frente, y me contesta en esa forma ... no se me da cosa, me incomoda... Eu nasci em Los Angeles, e eu falo 3 línguas .... I speak 3 languages since I was a kid and never had a problem, don’t know why it’s a burden to speak another language
Coisa DaLatinoamerica | What’s your strongest language and were you raised with all three? ...for research lmao I tried learning French but school kinda ruined it for me and for now I don’t want to touch it 😂. Que bueno que los lenguajes que vinieron de Latín son similares, no se portugués (creo que es) pero lo pude entender. Phew 😅. El español es mi primer lenguaje pero lo hablo raramente y creo que lo estoy perdiendo... que no quieroooo. Apenas me di cuenta que el comentario fue hecho hace un año.
Here in sweden its normal to speak 3 languages. I speak swedish, english and spanish and my children will speak those three plus sign language because one of them has a speaking disorder. Language is so important, its our way to comunicate.
Que Te Importa Is it fixed that you learn spanish as a third language or do you have a choice? Here in Germany we (or at least I) can choose between french and latin in 6th grade and later on if we wanted to we could add the other one of those 2 (so latin or french) and (if you wanted to focus on language (instead of science or art) in your 'school career') spanish and russian. And also when do you guys start with english because swedes are known for being really good at english
@@potaatoo8793 well, my parents are from Chile, thats why i can spanish. We learn English in school, its as important as math here. Its kind of a second language since the TV is all in english with swedish subtitels. Now a days even older people speaks english. And also you can choose between french, german and spanish in school if you want to learn as extra.
If I'm a Spanish 21 year old girl and I speak fluent Spanish and almost fluent English, can I learn more languages? I want to learn Italian, German, Swedish, Japanese, French and idk that's it but mostly Italian, Swedish and French (even though my first language is Spanish I watch and listen almost everything in English cause I love it, specially British)
I AM SO PROUD OF MY SISTER HEATHER! Thank you guys for the love on this video and for appreciating her amazing tips! And thank you, cuñado, for all your work! You rock!!!
I was raised in a bilingual home, and I wouldn’t want it any other way! I’m so grateful to know 2 languages! I want to learn other languages too. When I have kids, I hope I’m able to succeed in raising them as bilingual or multilingual. Thank you for the helpful tips! :)
@@Vini-xf8zq if I'm a Spanish 21 year old girl and I speak fluent Spanish and almost fluent English, can I learn more languages? I want to learn Italian, German, Swedish, Japanese, French and idk that's it but mostly Italian, Swedish and French (even though my first language is Spanish I watch and listen almost everything in English cause I love it, specially British)
Im Mexican American, my dad and grandparents are from Mexico but they never taught me spanish. I started learning on my own about 4 years ago and Im making sure my son will be bilingual. Im so lucky to have a Mexican baby sitter who speaks to my son in spanish, hes been with her since he was 4 months old and is now 2 years old and understands so much spanish.
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Omg literally exact same. My dad and his side of the family are from Costa Rica y Colombia but my dad is SO lazy he never bothered to teach me Spanish. Now I'm stuck as an adult to teach it to myself and the grammar is very hard. I learned Japanese and Danish (for fun) much more easily. Spanish has been impossible for me to grasp all my life and I always get shamed because I'm not Latino enough, I'm too white, etc.
My mom knows Portuguese but she never teached me Portuguese, I don't want to do the same, if I will have children I will teach them Spanish if my partner speak another language, and if is not, I will teach them English, of course I will improve before have children but I want them be bilingual so I will do my best
You're so privileged. I live in this gigantic country named Brazil where people only speak Portuguese and nothing else. Just a very small minority speaks English or Spanish as second language. It's so rare to speak a second language here because even in our schools language classes are not taken seriously
Me toca saber eso, que mis hermanos hablan más que portugués o espanol. ¿De que país eres? Soy brasileno, hablo también inglés pero solo conozco que Paraguay, que habla guarani y Uruguai que habla nuestro idioma. ¿Quales son esos otros paises que nos hablaste?
@@vejamoxdan Quite similar here in Peru, people from the Andes mountains speak Spanish and Quechua (ancient language), some of them have Spanish as first language, some others, Quechua. I'm from the coast, so I don't know Quechua but words because my Andean family roots. Now I'm learning Portuguese too. Definitely, if I have children in the future, I will make my best effort to teach them my language and encourage them to learn more. I like you all my Brazilian neighbours. I visited your lovely country, now I'm planning moving over there. Peace!
As a Chinese person, I envy you so much. You have no idea how hard it is to speak even English when there's almost nobody around me who speaks the language. I learned Japanese through anime, English, through American series and movies. Now I live in Japan and have a Mexican boyfriend. I hope our children will be able to speak Chinese and Spanish at least.
@@julianapaccola8260 Yes, because we really don't need to speak any other language then Portuguese. We live in a huge country where just Portuguese is enough to the communication.
I'm from Tijuana Mexico and I was raised like that, my mom used to talk to me in English, most of the times because I asked her to, I wanted to be able to communicate with many people since I was always surrounded by Americans. Eventually I learned the language just fine, I'm glad I had my mom helping me and she gave me a tool I didn't know I was gonna use in the future, now I'm an English teacher :) My favorite story as a kid was "Thumper's little sisters" from bambi :)
Bilingualism is the best. I was born and raised in Puerto Rico, so I basically learned English and Spanish at the same time. Because of this, I was also able to learn French and become somewhat fluent before dropping it entirely lol
I’m only 16 so I’m not really thinking about children but have always wondered how you would teach your kids to be bilingual. I’m learning Spanish at school and would love to be fluent some day. This video was really interesting and I really admire the work you put in to give your children the benefits of being bilingual.
I was born in the US and my parents are Brazilian. Portuguese was my first language and I learned English in school. I learned to read and write in Portuguese by myself by reading Brazilian comics. It’s so helpful to learn a language by watching movies, shows, listening to music, and reading. I’m now in Spanish 3 in high school, on my way to learning Spanish, a 3rd language. It’s so great to know Portuguese (lots of Latin) because there are similar Latin languages (Spanish, Italian, etc). EDIT (1 year later) So after Spanish 3 I took AP Spanish in 12th grade (I just graduated high school). Highly recommend this course if you can take it at high school or at an online high school! The key to learning a language is definitely speaking with others who speak it and watching shows, etc. Recently I had the opportunity to do an interview on a Latin News Channel (Telemundo) about a petition I organized. I had not attended Spanish class in a while (COVID-19) so it was definitely a good way to practice 😆
Dude, how marvellous it should be! I'm brazilian, borned and raised in São Paulo. I didn't get so damn luck like you had. I had to learn english by myself since I haven't bilingual relatives. I also speak spanish and I tottes agree with you. Portuguese and spanish are almost the same, what could be tricky, at the point to look out not to create a dialect, like we have on our board, the "portunhol".
Steph C I'm trying to learn Portuguese and my husband, who is from São Paulo, bought me a bunch of his favorite childhood comics to read. They're fun! I'm happy to know I'm not the only one who has learned / is learning from them. :-)
Danilo Braga my Brazilian husband's little brother (guitarist/singer in Grupo Triii) learned English by watching the sitcom "Friends". 😂 He's actually very good!! Even less of an accent than my husband, and understands a lot of the more subtle jokes and slang Americans like myself tend to use.
@@kristina3threat So, my bet that he showed you "turma da monica", didn't he? Those gang have been you us since the 60's. I'm a big fan of they and also now, the creator of "monica", had release the same comics in spanish and english. I do as you do, reading it. It's a good way to improve my skills.
Spanish is my first language and English is my second language. I was born in the US but after a while of being a student here my Spanish began to wear off and my parents noticed, they did their part to learn English though it wasn’t perfect they tried. My Spanish definitely improved over the years, my parents definitely had the rule of answer with the language you were spoken with. My dad always got on my case about doubting myself, bc Ik how to speak Spanish I just needed to try a little harder. I’m thankful now that I have my bf, he talks to me in Spanish so much and he helps me remember and add to my vocabulary. Having a support system is great, Ik that if we ever had children Ik he’d be a great help for raising bilingual children.
We thought a toddler in our family was speaking gibberish, but it turned out he was repeating Korean words and phrases picked up offline. It was amazing....
Well, you know a Latin roots language (French) and a language that gave a lot of words for its vocabulary (Arabic). For you, it would be easy to learn Spanish. :D
I'm Venezuelan, but we live in Portugal, so at our home we are always speaking spanish so my kid can speak both languages naturally, and them english too. Thank you for your tips.
I speak Chinese, Japanese, English and a little bit of Spanish and French, still learning lol. I would like to raise my children to speak Chinese and English at least. Thank you so much for your tips.
Marco Mark Productions This!!! It actually happened with me. My mother was born and raised in Puerto Rico, but my father basically can only speak English. My mother still talked to my brother and I in Spanish, but since we were never forced to speak Spanish (except with her side of the family, but even then, they practiced their English with us which only made us more dependent on English), so we ended up understand Spanish extremely well, but speaking it was so much harder. I was afraid of speaking Spanish for my whole life until we had to move to Puerto Rico in 7th grade because of my grandpa was sick, so we went to school where everyone spoke Spanish. We got used to it eventually (and almost everyone can speak some English, even if it’s just a little), but I was so insecure about my Spanish, and I cried a lot from the stress. It’s been 4 years, and I still get shy about it, hahah. But it’s improved tremendously, I just wish my parents took a better approach. No one asked for my life story, I just thought I’d share. 😂😅😅
I was waiting for this. I'm raising bilingual kids. We live in Mexico and we try to speak English at home and Spanish outside The house. Also my first language is Spanish so I'm doing the same thing but in reverse
I am also raising bilingual kids at home .. we live in México and some times I want to give up 🙈 I find it difficult because I’m the only one speaking English at home
That's one of my fears 'cuz my husband doesn't speak English and, if I'm going to teach our future kids, I'm afraid that they don't find on their father the support I'm looking for. Besides, he also likes japonese and I SUCK at it... Basically I can't wait to see how's going to be
@@erykhacastillo7571 Same here, I'm the only one speaking English at home even though my boyfriend doesn't so it's a bit tough for my son to get used to it. He sometimes pretends he can't hear me when a word or two are too complex for him.
I really appreciate this video. We hope to raise our child with one parent speaking Spanish, the other French and living in a predominantly English environment. This has been very helpful.
I was raised by Chilean parents in Australia, I couldnt be more grateful that my parents only spoke to us in Spanish. I want to raise my children in the same way. I plan to speak to my baby in Spanish. Thanks for this upload, its very helpful.
I was born in a bilingual island called Mallorca, so I speak Spanish and Catalán. My mom is French so she spoke to me in French when I was little and I started to learn English in school when I was 4 and right know I'm studying in the US so I'm multilingual.
It was so hard for me to communicate and express my feelings growing up.. my mom ONLY speaks Spanish but I live in the USA (CA) in my elementary school we were not allowed to speak Spanish and I never payed attention in my English class so I wasn’t fluent in any language. I was always frustrated because I didn’t know how to explain how I felt or speak as fluent as I wanted. I was embarrassed to speak Spanish to people who’s first language was Spanish and embarrassed to speak English to people who’s first language was English because I knew I wasn’t fluent & I felt like I would be judged for not being fluent. It was tough. I always preferred and felt more comfortable with English. I took it upon myself to get better at BOTH languages I still struggle with Spanish but At my job I get a lot of Spanish speaking customers so that has helped me a lot. And my boyfriends family only speaks English so communicating with them has also helped me.
Melissa Casillas That’s tough. I’m a music teacher at an American curriculum immersion school in China. I’ve found that my students who struggle with Chinese also struggle more with English.
@@chismewithmel9850 Lol not really. I'm Chinese. I can tell you that most Chinese students struggle with English. It's hard to learn any language when nobody around you speaks the language. It was when I dated a Bolivian guy that my English truely improved, because he didn't speak Chinese and I didn't speak Spanish, lol.
I speak italian and spanish fluenty and I am so grateful I have been raised bilingual. when I was born my mom still didn't speak italian so well, so she spoke only in spanish to me . (My dad works all day so we were always together ) So i consider spanish my first language even if i have always lived in italy , because when I was little I couldn't speak italian,just spanish . I have learnt italian when I started school and I keep speaking with my mom in spanish in the house and when I have the opportunity to go to mexico. My spanish hasn't changed and my accent is perfect , I feel lucky for having this opportunity .
I wish my mum did the same with me. I'm also Italian and my mum is half Austrian half Italian, but her mum (Austrian) didn't raise her bilingual. So now, despite the fact that mum did learn Austrian/German very well (she always spent summers in Austria with her Austrian relatives), she never spoke to me in German for fear to teach me sth wrong. That's such a pity. Now I do speak German, but I had to learn it with internships and through Erasmus and oh boy if it was difficult.
I’m from Sweden and I speak Swedish, English and a little bit of German too. When I get kids in the future I really want to teach them English (before they learn it in school), even though it’s not my first language. I think it’ll help them so much in the future! It’s almost necessary to know English today, it’s all over the world. Thank you for a great and informative video!
I love the trick about you switching languages to get them to go back to your "only" mutual language. That's hilarious and so brilliant. I will use that with my niece. 😂😂😂
I need to get some more phrases so I can say more than just "je ne sais pas" to get them to switch back to Spanish... Actually, though, since the filming of this video, we've all had a lot of fun studying French together too. It's kind of wonderful, because I've wanted to learn French for a long time, and now I have 3 adorable study buddies. The baby fell in love with a French song called "Je Suis Une Pizza", so we're learning all the most important vocabulary right away hahahahah.
Music is key! My kids were so reluctant to speaking Spanish even though they understood a vast majority of what I was saying. Speaking it was where they struggled. I was also having issues being consistent because I just wanted them to communicate with me. Listening to only spanish music at home sparked their interest in speaking bc they wanted to know what the words they sung meant. It associated Spanish with happiness and dancing and overall made speaking spanish more fun once it was attached to melody. Everyday they say new phrases and I have been working hard with consistency on my part. Music helps us bridge the gaps. And I'm sure it will work for you too.
I live in the US. I speak Spanish and English thanks to my mom who’s from Costa Rica. My partner speaks English but I plan on raising bilingual children 🥰🙏🏾
I am glad that she mentions the challenges that experts warn about: do not speak a language that you struggle with being spontaneous in, that you don't know well as PRIMARY language, and there are really many many reasons for this. There are many multilinguals - like myself - who could choose from two or more languages to speak as primary language with their children, but we are an exception. It is of utmost importance to speak a language you can bond on an emotional level with your child, be spontaneous and do NOT have to look up words when interacting with your children! You can always ADD another language when your children are around 3-4 years old, or add it at very clear moments (using the Time and Place strategy) even earlier on, hire a nanny who speaks the target language and therefore use the strategy that for babies and toddlers is easier to understand: One Person One Language. I understand the intention of the parents, but the children can feel when we express ourselves better in the other language and they sense the filter that the language we're not so fluent in puts between us and them. You don't want to risk that. This all said, I grew up multilingual myself and raised my, now all adult, three children with multiple (5-7) languages too. It is possible to do this in a healthy and effective way...
First off... 👏👏👏👏 you both are doing an amazing job! I was born and raised in the USA and Spanish being my first language. I cant say I'm fluent in either languages and that's with me having a learning disability in reading comprehension. Spanish is definitely a language I plan on teaching my children when I have them as well as American Sign language. Jordan, I get how intimidating it could be to speak another language in front of those who are native speakers but your Spanish is REALLY GOOD! if there is one thing I learned throughout my Communication Sciences and Disorders degree it's that you have to take ownership of the language and don't let others make you doubt in your ability. That is honestly the best example you can set your children especially when you are out in public with them. As a teacher, I lead my example... and you both have been doing a good job at doing so too from the looks of things!
Jordan speaks Spanish very well. Don’t be afraid to speak to native speakers. As a learner of the language, I’ve found them to be soo very helpful and amenable to helping us learn. I think you’re both doing a great job! I’m the single other person speaking only Spanish to my grandkids. I love the language and really wish my adult Latin children knew their native language but was frustrated with working all day and coming home trying to teach them Spanish when they were at daycare/school hearing English all day long. I’m trying not to let that happen with my grand babies. Thanks for all the excellent tips!
I’m so grateful for this video, I was giving up with raising my son bilingual due that he doesn’t say any word in English even though he understands it. But this video has encouraged me to keep going on and the tips are really useful. Thank you so much 😊
Im first generation American from a Salvadorian family. I grew up speaking Spanish and English and I’m currently learning French. I hope to learn more languages and maybe in the future teach my kids the same too
This is the best video I've seen by fay woth AMAZING tips and resources and your voice is so melodic. I'm not a native speaker but I know a good amount of Spanish and want my kids to be bilingual. This is soooo helpful. Thank you SOOOOO much
I was raised in a multilingual environment. We need to know our mother tongue, our national language and ofc English by the time we go to elementary school. Then a fourth language: state language is introduced. So yeah its pretty common here i guess
Dutch was my native language but I was always obsessed with America, I taught myself how to talk English, watching RUclips , english movies and more! Now I’m 12 years old and I live in The Netherlands, my whole family talks Dutch but I can still talk English :)
That’s great! Here’s a quick tip: the verb “to talk” is “speak”, so you would say “I taught myself how to speak English”. You’re English is very good though!
Im watching this 6 months later, please tell me she has her own channel now. I loved it!!!!!! Loved her and your cuñado! They should definitely start a channel.
this video is so helpful, thank you! I’m peruvian and I have a niece who is turning 2 in February, she lives with me and I speak english to her since day one. Nobody else at home speaks english so I try to speak as much english as I can every day and she has improved so much! it’s amazing to see how she understands almost everything I say and I can’t way for her to start talking to see if she can actually speak both languages. I’m so excited about this journey!
I've been talking about this with my husband. We're from Quebec so our first language is French, his "father tongue" and my second language is English and we live in Germany 😅 I'm due in October and, if we're allowed to see people then, the baby will hear all 3 languages from the beginning! I absolutely want the family language to be QC French, my husband will speak English with the baby and outside the house our friends and others will speak German. Can't wait to see how it goes! 😊
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@@bahaashargui9209 she's doing well and seems to understand us both! But she's only 10 months now :) She says maman, papa, dada, bye (it's sounds more like ba but you can tell it's supposed to be bye hehe). We make sure to not use random words from the other languages when we speak, which we often do when we're talking just my husband and I. And we read a lot :)
Great video! And it got me reconsider the way I taught my daughter English. My wife and I are native speakers of Mandarin currently living in China, and we also speak (what we consider to be) pretty good English thanks to our studying and working experience in North America. When my daughter was younger, we tried to speak Mandarin and English to her interchangeably. But as soon as she started to speak up, her Mandarin proficiency has skyrocketed, since her grandparents speak Mandarin at home to her all the time when I go to work during the day, and she also attends a Mandarin kindergarten. And it's only natural that as she is turning 5 years old now, she has a growing preference to communicate increasingly complicated ideas in Mandarin, and her English is still very insufficient for the increasingly sophisticated communicational and emotional needs at her current age. This makes it a lot harder for us to adopt the 'minority language at home' or the 'one parent one language' rules than it would have been, had we started at her early age and stuck to it. We might have to accept the fact that we'll need to teach her English in the traditional learning method for typical second - language learners...
I’ve been learning Spanish since kindergarten because my school had a Spanish program where half the day would be in English the other half in Spanish.
I was 3 minutes in when I subscribed. I imagine your children have no problem falling asleep, your voice is SO soothing and you're so eloquent. Everything was so well-explained!
Wow! I'm so happy I came across this video! Thank you! It can be so isolating when so many friends of mine speak both English and Spanish, but aren't teaching their kids to be bilingual. They always ask me how I do it. I'm already doing most of these thing, but am looking forward to incorporating more. It also helps that my husband is on board with me and understands the importance.
My husband is from León Guanajuato. He is Deaf..so he uses LSM/Lengua de señas mexicanos for life, but he also knows English and American Sign Language. For me, I am an ASL interpreter and English teacher. For mis cuñad@s y suagra, they are pure Spanish. Our son and daughter are learning thru the OPOL which seems to work. There are time we have to interchange but I’m mostly English, hubby Sign, and in-laws here Spanish!
My native language is spanish and recently i decided to speak to my 2 year old daughter in english to raise her as bilingual. Thanks a lot for this video, it's very motivating and gives me great ideas to keep going.
@@lillatoth4214 IDK, Don't think so since I'm living in Mexico and don't have many opportunities to practice it. I work as a telemarketing telephonist on english so at least it's not basic i assume.
Thank you so much for this video! I'm American living in Mississippi. I have a bachelor's degree in Spanish. I developed a love for Spanish language very young and stayed in Madrid, Spain for 10 weeks in 2012 teaching 2 wonderful kids English while I became fluent in Spanish. I had my first child a few months ago and I'm trying to figure out how to teach him both English and Spanish. This video has definitely helped me develop my own plan. Thank you very much!
Soy Paraguaya, mi país ya es un país bilingüe (hablamos español y guaraní, nuestro idioma indígena) de pequeña viví en Brasil unos años por lo que tuve que aprender también portugués, y desde los 16 trato de aprender inglés, esos idiomas previos me ayudan a comprender que no siempre se puede trasmitir la misma idea perfectamente en otro idioma y también permitió que mi lengua se acostumbre a muchísimos sonidos diferentes que facilitan a que mejore la pronunciación.
Hi I am from Brazil and my husband is American .My son is 6 years old and I did not teach him my language" portuguese "as a baby but I want to start now .It is very important to learn your mother language and be able to talk with your grandparents and family . Also , it will be a good benefit for his future .Thank you for your tips ! It was very helpful .
I live in Russia, and the Russian is my first language. I teach my one-and-a-half year daughter English from her birth, despite my proficiency in English is not very high (upper-intermediate at best). And I am very excited with this! I definetely see the results of my efforts and this is very motivating and makes me happy! And it allows me to enhance my own skills as well )) Unfortunately my wife does not speak English but her support is important! And thanks God for RUclips - classic English nursery rhymes help a lot! I am looking for other parents in Novosibirsk who are obsessed with the idea of teaching their kids English, please leave your comments here!
Hi, I am from Russia and I try to speak English with my kids too! It’s been four years since this comment was left. How it’s going now? Does your child speak two languages now? Please, share your experience!
I'm an American living in Norway with a Norwegian husband and we have completely failed to do any of these 3 models specifically- we have mostly English at home but use Norwegian too, we mostly use Norwegian with the grandparents but I still speak English with them sometimes. But at 6+7 my two kids are completely bilingual and can switch seamlessly. It's incredible to witness
Hi Heather~ Your experience is so encouraging. I'm pregnant with two amazing boys kicking my belly right now. I'm from Korea, my mother tongue is Korean. And I speak English and mandarin Chinese with my husband who is Taiwanese. We live in Korea, but I don't want to use a language which my husband can't understand quite well. So I decided to speak English! Still a little worried about it because it's not my first language. If I cannot remember simple words like diapers or socks, it might be terrifying. It's a big challenge for me and my husband. I hope my kids can be a fluent multilingual later on. Thanks for nice video. Seems like I'm not alone!
I am Scottish :) I speak English and very little Gaelic for now. I am learning now so that when I have my own children I can teach them the language of their motherland 🏴☺️
Heather is so adorable, I love her way of speaking slow and gentle, i don't know. I love her. I would love my children to speak English, I teach English but it's so hard at home to speak English to them. I'll try harder. Thanks for your recomendations Heather.
This is great! I one day want to raise my children to be bilingual. I’ve been starting early and speaking to my dogs only in Spanish. My first language is English and I’m still learning Spanish, but speaking to my dogs really helps my learning. When I don’t know what to say I figure out how to say it. It’s also cool because he listens to Me and nobody else when they try to tell him to do stuff in English.
Lamo! Have you seen the video re a guy who got a free puppy that was partially trained? Problem was, the dog was trained in Spanish & the guy was trained in English. Lol, rofl! Look up dame la mano puppy.
Love your explanation, so clear and understandable. I’m Dutch and my wife’s Cuban and we’re using the OPOl method and our 18 month your old barely speaks but she understands both languages. Sometimes it’s hard to keep it up but seeing videos like this really helps! Keep up the good work!
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Thanks for the video! These are great tips. I’m raising my son bilingual and was getting discouraged because my husband isn’t a native speaker or knows much Spanish.
I raised my two boys bilingually, even though Spanish was also a second language for me that I did not learn until I was 30. We spoke always in Spanish until he was about 6 years old, but he still has excellent receptive skills and OK spoken skills. He is now 35 and expecting his first child; he and his wife came to me and asked me to be the Spanish-speaking abulelita, which I'm thrilled to be able to do.
I'm currently 11 weeks pregnant and always wanted to raise my children to be bi or multi lingual. I am equally fluent in English, Polish, and Vietnamese. The pronunciation of which are widely different so I really want to teach them all 3 languages. However, teaching Polish whilst living in Vietnam could be quite distant for them so I'm now considering reducing to 2 languages: vietnamese and english.
Excellent!!!! My daughter was born in US, she speaks perfect English and Spanish, she’s now learning french and german. She loves it and we love to see her so happy and social.
I was raised bilingually myself and I also did linguistic research on child bilingualism. I thought your video was great. Usually you see a lot of people doing similar video topics but it's mostly crap. Your video actually reflected actual linguistic research as far as I know. Well done.
Heather and Holly, thank you so much for this video!!! I was born in Argentina and raised in the States and today I am determined to teach my children both languages (English and Spanish). My son is 3 years old and can transition to the language they are speaking to him with no problem (although he prefers English). We current live in Argentina, he and his sister were born here... Thanks for the tips!!! Heather needs to make a youtube, I'd be her number 1 fan!
You are doing your kids such a great favor! Spanish is my first language and I started learning English in kindergarten. We moved to the US when I was 12 and through middle school my English comprehension soared while my Spanish faltered a bit. THANKFULLY my mom is a badass and MADE me take Spanish in high school and I'm SO thankful for that! I am now fluent in both and a pretty kick ass interpreter if I do say so myself. For the last three years I've been teaching myself Portuguese. It's a process lol.
Oh my god the "delayed" speech thing drives me nuts! Yes, it's good to monitor kids to detect if they need help in certain areas, but some people nowdays are crazy about it. Great job on not letting this deter you from being a bilingual household! My little cousin is two and three months, and his parents were told by the pediatrician he might have a delay because he wasn't speaking. Low and behold, about four months ago he started talking up a storm in full sentences in both languages. Now he's working on his numbers and colors.
I'm from Veracruz, I'm 15 years old, And I don't know why but I know how to talk in English, my parents didn't put me on a Bilingual school, and they doesn't know how to talk in English and I could say that I learned English by myself, I met a lot of americans through all my life, and one of em' told to me that I talk really good even for being Mexican, and until now I'm still doing the same thing, because I like the English. I mean, you could learn a lot of difficult things just if you really want to.
I am from Spain, I live in Los Angeles, CA and I have an 8 year old daughter. Her mom is from Veracruz, Mexico and we only speak to her in Spanish. She speaks beautiful Spanish and English and she's great translating between the two languages. She mixes a little Castilian and Mexican Spanish but I love it. We've always taught her to be proud of her three cultures. As we say half Spanish, half Mexican and 100% American.
Holly thank you so very much for your encouraging videos! speaking from experience in struggling & striving so much for my children to be bilingual; it's always encouraging to see and hear other parents with similar dilemmas. We've also try the one person one language and it works great when alone with a child. We speak the minority language when all of us are together. We've also checked out resources from our libraries and video content and it's definitely helpful to remind the children that are second language isn't imaginary or made up 😂😂.
This is what I appreciate a lot. I live in the Caribbean and everyone knows max 4 languages (Spanish, English, Dutch and our native language) I also learned french at school, I can't wait to teach my kids these languages.
Gracias por el vídeo. Me gustaría saber a partir de qué edad les empiezan a hablar en el segundo idioma a sus hijos. Tengo una nena de 3 meses, debería empezar ya? Agradezco a quien me pueda responder
I do agree ! Heather needs her YT channel. I'm Mexican resident of US and I have 2 babys with my American Husband and both wish and want are babys to be bilingual. Great Tips !!! Much Muchas Gracias por compartir tus ideas!!
Love it, Heather!! Thank you for sharing all your knowledge. Being bilingual has been so special and important to me and it is a gift I want to give my children too.
I just love the education that ur giving to your children it’s so sad as a Hispanic that so many of my friends don’t speak Spanish which is our primary languages through generations
My kids attend Spanish immersion! I knew it when I was young but you know what they say, if you don't use it lol. Pero yo entiendo mas. So my poor English speaking husband is left out a bit but because I dont speak it I have a hard time getting them to use Spanish at home. So this gave me some encouragement to get back on it. Also the app "Microsoft translate" is amazing. You can speak, write or even take a picture and have it translated appropriately. If you get the paid app you can also use the part to do real time conversation translation.
It really works, I have my daughter watch movies and every screen time she gets, it has to be in English, since our primary language is Spanish, we also get books in English, to read to her before bedtime, she was just 3 when she started speaking full sentences in English, and she used them in the right context, she was not just repeating them, she understood what she was saying, it amazes me how kids can learn languages easily. Another thing you could try is to find something your kid really enjoys and try to do it in the target language, try to keep it fun, as if it were a game. Also can you make a version of this in Spanish, so I could share it with my daughter's class group, I think it could be helpful.
Dear Heather, thank you very much for your tips, I’m Spanish, I live in Spain, I’m an English teacher at a public school and I’m trying to speak English with my two year boy and my 4 month baby, some times it’s really really tough cause I’m tired or sleepy but I don’t want to give up.
Soy de México pero mi primer idioma fue Inglés y en mi casa hablábamos en inglés y afuera de casa español fue muy bueno eso pero con el tiempo no tuve más vocabulario del inglés
Excellent!! I'm teaching my son English, which is my second language. I really appreciate all the tips and advices from Heather. I am alone in the challenge of creating an environment for my son in English. Here in Chile the only language my son hears at school and outside the house is Spanish. It's hard for me to tell how inspiring and supportive this video has been to me. Thank you so much! I'll try to follow all your advices. Some of the things you advice I already do by instinct, so I'm glad to be on the right path and ready to put into practice things like.... being part of an online community so I don't feel alone anymore in this challenge. I'm so grateful and even emotional with this video!!
I’m italian and I’ve always been in love with languages. I’m trying to improve my english skills as much as I can in order to teach it also to my children one day in the future. I would like to have bilingual children. I’ve studied other languages in high school and I’m majoring in Japanese now at university. Japanese language is becoming my third language because I’m trying hard to be fluent also in that. I don’t know if my partner will be Japanese but if that will be the case, I hope my children will speak italian and japanese. In case of same language partner, I will surely speak to them in english. But who knows in life what will happen.
heather you are amazing, so many people told me i could not speak english to my children because it‘s not my native language! you just gave me hope, thank you!!
Heather should start a RUclips channel, her voice is really soothing and she can explain herself really well
Jesús Martínez I completely agree!
I concur!
I agree too! She seems very patient with her kids.
Jesús Martínez I really enjoyed listening to her too, she has a manner of speaking which makes her advice feel so easy to take in and trust.
@@bananaphone8494 totally agree
Also, forcing your kids to take a vacation in a country where the only language spoken is the language they are learning! I used to hate speaking Spanish, but my mom sent me to Nicaragua when I was 6 years old to spend the ENTIRE 3 MONTH SUMMER with my grandparents. Omg did that teach me a lesson. I had to survive somehow lol. My Spanish dramatically improved and now I'm so thankful!
That is awesome. That is why I focused so hard on making sure I could get my children to Japan after we started learning Japanese
keniarosemary This is indeed a great thing to do! Thanks for sharing 🙏🏽
I don’t know why but it hurts when I hear people say “I HATE SPEAKING SPANISH “ it’s different from not knowing... siempre cuando veo a un prietito gordito con el nopal en la frente, y me contesta en esa forma ... no se me da cosa, me incomoda... Eu nasci em Los Angeles, e eu falo 3 línguas .... I speak 3 languages since I was a kid and never had a problem, don’t know why it’s a burden to speak another language
Pinche cara de pupusa que tienes y segun tu fuiste a Nicaragua a aprender espanol.
Coisa DaLatinoamerica |
What’s your strongest language and were you raised with all three? ...for research lmao
I tried learning French but school kinda ruined it for me and for now I don’t want to touch it 😂.
Que bueno que los lenguajes que vinieron de Latín son similares, no se portugués (creo que es) pero lo pude entender. Phew 😅. El español es mi primer lenguaje pero lo hablo raramente y creo que lo estoy perdiendo... que no quieroooo.
Apenas me di cuenta que el comentario fue hecho hace un año.
Here in sweden its normal to speak 3 languages. I speak swedish, english and spanish and my children will speak those three plus sign language because one of them has a speaking disorder. Language is so important, its our way to comunicate.
Que Te Importa Is it fixed that you learn spanish as a third language or do you have a choice? Here in Germany we (or at least I) can choose between french and latin in 6th grade and later on if we wanted to we could add the other one of those 2 (so latin or french) and (if you wanted to focus on language (instead of science or art) in your 'school career') spanish and russian. And also when do you guys start with english because swedes are known for being really good at english
@@potaatoo8793 well, my parents are from Chile, thats why i can spanish. We learn English in school, its as important as math here. Its kind of a second language since the TV is all in english with swedish subtitels. Now a days even older people speaks english. And also you can choose between french, german and spanish in school if you want to learn as extra.
If I'm a Spanish 21 year old girl and I speak fluent Spanish and almost fluent English, can I learn more languages? I want to learn Italian, German, Swedish, Japanese, French and idk that's it but mostly Italian, Swedish and French (even though my first language is Spanish I watch and listen almost everything in English cause I love it, specially British)
How do you manage between 2 minority languages?
Julia Janzen during my high school days in germany (hamburg) we could choose between latin, french, spanish, italian & greek 👀
I AM SO PROUD OF MY SISTER HEATHER!
Thank you guys for the love on this video and for appreciating her amazing tips!
And thank you, cuñado, for all your work! You rock!!!
Thank you for uploading this in English Holly! 💖 Thank you Heather and Jordan! Great job guys! 👍🏾
I love your family Holly.
Tu familia son encantadores todos, desde tus padres hasta todos tus hermanos.
We need Heather to create her own RUclips channel.
Superholly English thank you so much for this video, you girls!! 😀
Does she have a channel?
I was raised in a bilingual home, and I wouldn’t want it any other way! I’m so grateful to know 2 languages! I want to learn other languages too. When I have kids, I hope I’m able to succeed in raising them as bilingual or multilingual. Thank you for the helpful tips! :)
I grew up learning 5 languages at the same time. Learn French when I was 12. Now I'm relearning it :)
@@Vini-xf8zq if I'm a Spanish 21 year old girl and I speak fluent Spanish and almost fluent English, can I learn more languages? I want to learn Italian, German, Swedish, Japanese, French and idk that's it but mostly Italian, Swedish and French (even though my first language is Spanish I watch and listen almost everything in English cause I love it, specially British)
Monica Vega I’m from sweden and I’m really curious, why do you want to learn swedish?
I was raised in a monolingual home, but my parents taught me Spanish around the age of 5 and now I'm learning more so yea
carolina same super greatfuk
There giving me Dora/ Diego vibes especially with the enthusiasm of every single word there so cute
E Riley OMG yessss!!!! Lol I thought I was the only one who got those vibes haha it’s adorable
Exactly what I was thinking. I thought it was a Spanish thing or they grew up on Dora.
Im Mexican American, my dad and grandparents are from Mexico but they never taught me spanish. I started learning on my own about 4 years ago and Im making sure my son will be bilingual. Im so lucky to have a Mexican baby sitter who speaks to my son in spanish, hes been with her since he was 4 months old and is now 2 years old and understands so much spanish.
Wao que lindo :333 💖 y que bueno!! :3 tu comentario me llamó la atención por el hecho de querer aprender por familia eso es de admirar
Wao that cute :333 💖 and that Wells!! :3 tour coment called me atenttion forma want learn for family, it is of admire ....
hows his language skills now?
Omg literally exact same. My dad and his side of the family are from Costa Rica y Colombia but my dad is SO lazy he never bothered to teach me Spanish. Now I'm stuck as an adult to teach it to myself and the grammar is very hard. I learned Japanese and Danish (for fun) much more easily. Spanish has been impossible for me to grasp all my life and I always get shamed because I'm not Latino enough, I'm too white, etc.
My mom knows Portuguese but she never teached me Portuguese, I don't want to do the same, if I will have children I will teach them Spanish if my partner speak another language, and if is not, I will teach them English, of course I will improve before have children but I want them be bilingual so I will do my best
POV: you don't have children, you are just watching this quietly
Yes
Same
I love comments like these lol
That's me!
🙌🏾 right here
So good tips... I am Peruvian and my wife chinese we are living in France now so we want to give our daughter our languages thanks for the good advice
Wow! What a mix. 😄
Thom Mendoza I’m marrying a Peruvian hehe
My gosh! So interesting mix. He'll get of 3 cultures...
As you are commenting in english I suppose that your children will speak spanish, chinese, french and english
Peruano!! ❤️❤️
In South Africa no one even thinks about it. Almost everyone speaks at least two languages from a young age.
You're so privileged. I live in this gigantic country named Brazil where people only speak Portuguese and nothing else. Just a very small minority speaks English or Spanish as second language. It's so rare to speak a second language here because even in our schools language classes are not taken seriously
Me toca saber eso, que mis hermanos hablan más que portugués o espanol. ¿De que país eres? Soy brasileno, hablo también inglés pero solo conozco que Paraguay, que habla guarani y Uruguai que habla nuestro idioma. ¿Quales son esos otros paises que nos hablaste?
@@vejamoxdan Quite similar here in Peru, people from the Andes mountains speak Spanish and Quechua (ancient language), some of them have Spanish as first language, some others, Quechua.
I'm from the coast, so I don't know Quechua but words because my Andean family roots.
Now I'm learning Portuguese too. Definitely, if I have children in the future, I will make my best effort to teach them my language and encourage them to learn more.
I like you all my Brazilian neighbours. I visited your lovely country, now I'm planning moving over there.
Peace!
As a Chinese person, I envy you so much. You have no idea how hard it is to speak even English when there's almost nobody around me who speaks the language. I learned Japanese through anime, English, through American series and movies. Now I live in Japan and have a Mexican boyfriend. I hope our children will be able to speak Chinese and Spanish at least.
@@julianapaccola8260 Yes, because we really don't need to speak any other language then Portuguese.
We live in a huge country where just Portuguese is enough to the communication.
She has a beautiful voice when she sang the nursery rhyme 😍
Omg. This is so helpful. I am Filipino and my wife is Guatemalan. We’re having a first child in April, a little Guatepino!
Chapino 🤣
I'm from Tijuana Mexico and I was raised like that, my mom used to talk to me in English, most of the times because I asked her to, I wanted to be able to communicate with many people since I was always surrounded by Americans. Eventually I learned the language just fine, I'm glad I had my mom helping me and she gave me a tool I didn't know I was gonna use in the future, now I'm an English teacher :)
My favorite story as a kid was "Thumper's little sisters" from bambi :)
Hector Gabriel Lizarraga Ceballos same here bud, i just wanted to communicate properly with my abuelos lol
I also teach my kids English and our native language. My 5 year old speaks good English
so tijauana habla solo ingles bullshit
No te entendí ni vergas no hablo inglés
Bilingualism is the best. I was born and raised in Puerto Rico, so I basically learned English and Spanish at the same time. Because of this, I was also able to learn French and become somewhat fluent before dropping it entirely lol
I’m only 16 so I’m not really thinking about children but have always wondered how you would teach your kids to be bilingual. I’m learning Spanish at school and would love to be fluent some day. This video was really interesting and I really admire the work you put in to give your children the benefits of being bilingual.
I was born in the US and my parents are Brazilian. Portuguese was my first language and I learned English in school. I learned to read and write in Portuguese by myself by reading Brazilian comics. It’s so helpful to learn a language by watching movies, shows, listening to music, and reading. I’m now in Spanish 3 in high school, on my way to learning Spanish, a 3rd language. It’s so great to know Portuguese (lots of Latin) because there are similar Latin languages (Spanish, Italian, etc).
EDIT (1 year later) So after Spanish 3 I took AP Spanish in 12th grade (I just graduated high school). Highly recommend this course if you can take it at high school or at an online high school! The key to learning a language is definitely speaking with others who speak it and watching shows, etc. Recently I had the opportunity to do an interview on a Latin News Channel (Telemundo) about a petition I organized. I had not attended Spanish class in a while (COVID-19) so it was definitely a good way to practice 😆
Wow.... three languages? That's amazing. I wish my parents taught me my native language.
Dude, how marvellous it should be! I'm brazilian, borned and raised in São Paulo. I didn't get so damn luck like you had. I had to learn english by myself since I haven't bilingual relatives. I also speak spanish and I tottes agree with you. Portuguese and spanish are almost the same, what could be tricky, at the point to look out not to create a dialect, like we have on our board, the "portunhol".
Steph C I'm trying to learn Portuguese and my husband, who is from São Paulo, bought me a bunch of his favorite childhood comics to read. They're fun! I'm happy to know I'm not the only one who has learned / is learning from them. :-)
Danilo Braga my Brazilian husband's little brother (guitarist/singer in Grupo Triii) learned English by watching the sitcom "Friends". 😂 He's actually very good!! Even less of an accent than my husband, and understands a lot of the more subtle jokes and slang Americans like myself tend to use.
@@kristina3threat So, my bet that he showed you "turma da monica", didn't he? Those gang have been you us since the 60's. I'm a big fan of they and also now, the creator of "monica", had release the same comics in spanish and english. I do as you do, reading it. It's a good way to improve my skills.
Spanish is my first language and English is my second language. I was born in the US but after a while of being a student here my Spanish began to wear off and my parents noticed, they did their part to learn English though it wasn’t perfect they tried. My Spanish definitely improved over the years, my parents definitely had the rule of answer with the language you were spoken with. My dad always got on my case about doubting myself, bc Ik how to speak Spanish I just needed to try a little harder. I’m thankful now that I have my bf, he talks to me in Spanish so much and he helps me remember and add to my vocabulary. Having a support system is great, Ik that if we ever had children Ik he’d be a great help for raising bilingual children.
You go girl, you should do it. It's a beautiful language and think they get the best of both worlds.
We thought a toddler in our family was speaking gibberish, but it turned out he was repeating Korean words and phrases picked up offline. It was amazing....
I relate to these kids so much❤ I'm 15 and bilingual and I'm so very proud of my parents for raising me bilingual.
I grew up speaking 3 languages: (french, arabic and english) and i am trying to learn spanish now
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Well, you know a Latin roots language (French) and a language that gave a lot of words for its vocabulary (Arabic). For you, it would be easy to learn Spanish. :D
León Pajuelo Maguiña Yessss🙌🏼
Kennedy 😊😊
mila milky YES OMG
THIS VIDEO IS SO ENCOURAGING!! Thank you. 😍
Thanks for watching! I'm so glad it was encouraging to you!
I'm Venezuelan, but we live in Portugal, so at our home we are always speaking spanish so my kid can speak both languages naturally, and them english too. Thank you for your tips.
Claudia Reyes that’s so cool
I speak Chinese, Japanese, English and a little bit of Spanish and French, still learning lol. I would like to raise my children to speak Chinese and English at least. Thank you so much for your tips.
I heard Chinese is really hard, good luck!
encouraging kids to speak in the 2nd language is very important otherwise they will be able to understand but unable to respond
Marco Mark Productions This!!! It actually happened with me. My mother was born and raised in Puerto Rico, but my father basically can only speak English. My mother still talked to my brother and I in Spanish, but since we were never forced to speak Spanish (except with her side of the family, but even then, they practiced their English with us which only made us more dependent on English), so we ended up understand Spanish extremely well, but speaking it was so much harder. I was afraid of speaking Spanish for my whole life until we had to move to Puerto Rico in 7th grade because of my grandpa was sick, so we went to school where everyone spoke Spanish. We got used to it eventually (and almost everyone can speak some English, even if it’s just a little), but I was so insecure about my Spanish, and I cried a lot from the stress. It’s been 4 years, and I still get shy about it, hahah. But it’s improved tremendously, I just wish my parents took a better approach.
No one asked for my life story, I just thought I’d share. 😂😅😅
spoopydumpling thanks for sharing!
I was waiting for this. I'm raising bilingual kids. We live in Mexico and we try to speak English at home and Spanish outside The house. Also my first language is Spanish so I'm doing the same thing but in reverse
I am also raising bilingual kids at home .. we live in México and some times I want to give up 🙈 I find it difficult because I’m the only one speaking English at home
That's one of my fears 'cuz my husband doesn't speak English and, if I'm going to teach our future kids, I'm afraid that they don't find on their father the support I'm looking for. Besides, he also likes japonese and I SUCK at it... Basically I can't wait to see how's going to be
@@erykhacastillo7571 Same here, I'm the only one speaking English at home even though my boyfriend doesn't so it's a bit tough for my son to get used to it. He sometimes pretends he can't hear me when a word or two are too complex for him.
Where in mexico ? I am in Guadalajara
Si son de México por qué escriben en inglés? Es curiosidad.
Such a wonderful thing to raise children this way. Please come back, Hollies sister. I really enjoy listening to you.
I really appreciate this video. We hope to raise our child with one parent speaking Spanish, the other French and living in a predominantly English environment. This has been very helpful.
I was raised by Chilean parents in Australia, I couldnt be more grateful that my parents only spoke to us in Spanish. I want to raise my children in the same way. I plan to speak to my baby in Spanish. Thanks for this upload, its very helpful.
I was born in a bilingual island called Mallorca, so I speak Spanish and Catalán. My mom is French so she spoke to me in French when I was little and I started to learn English in school when I was 4 and right know I'm studying in the US so I'm multilingual.
Marinaa Castro I would like to learn French, but I live in the USA, and it’s hard to practice. Pero el español si lo hablo fluido.
It was so hard for me to communicate and express my feelings growing up.. my mom ONLY speaks Spanish but I live in the USA (CA) in my elementary school we were not allowed to speak Spanish and I never payed attention in my English class so I wasn’t fluent in any language. I was always frustrated because I didn’t know how to explain how I felt or speak as fluent as I wanted. I was embarrassed to speak Spanish to people who’s first language was Spanish and embarrassed to speak English to people who’s first language was English because I knew I wasn’t fluent & I felt like I would be judged for not being fluent. It was tough. I always preferred and felt more comfortable with English. I took it upon myself to get better at BOTH languages I still struggle with Spanish but At my job I get a lot of Spanish speaking customers so that has helped me a lot. And my boyfriends family only speaks English so communicating with them has also helped me.
Melissa Casillas That’s tough. I’m a music teacher at an American curriculum immersion school in China. I’ve found that my students who struggle with Chinese also struggle more with English.
Wow interesting! I heard that Chinese is the hardest language to learn so once you learn Chinese every other language is easy!
@@chismewithmel9850 Lol not really. I'm Chinese. I can tell you that most Chinese students struggle with English. It's hard to learn any language when nobody around you speaks the language. It was when I dated a Bolivian guy that my English truely improved, because he didn't speak Chinese and I didn't speak Spanish, lol.
I speak italian and spanish fluenty and I am so grateful I have been raised bilingual. when I was born my mom still didn't speak italian so well, so she spoke only in spanish to me . (My dad works all day so we were always together )
So i consider spanish my first language even if i have always lived in italy , because when I was little I couldn't speak italian,just spanish . I have learnt italian when I started school and I keep speaking with my mom in spanish in the house and when I have the opportunity to go to mexico. My spanish hasn't changed and my accent is perfect , I feel lucky for having this opportunity .
I wish my mum did the same with me. I'm also Italian and my mum is half Austrian half Italian, but her mum (Austrian) didn't raise her bilingual. So now, despite the fact that mum did learn Austrian/German very well (she always spent summers in Austria with her Austrian relatives), she never spoke to me in German for fear to teach me sth wrong. That's such a pity. Now I do speak German, but I had to learn it with internships and through Erasmus and oh boy if it was difficult.
I’m from Sweden and I speak Swedish, English and a little bit of German too. When I get kids in the future I really want to teach them English (before they learn it in school), even though it’s not my first language. I think it’ll help them so much in the future! It’s almost necessary to know English today, it’s all over the world. Thank you for a great and informative video!
I love the trick about you switching languages to get them to go back to your "only" mutual language. That's hilarious and so brilliant. I will use that with my niece. 😂😂😂
I need to get some more phrases so I can say more than just "je ne sais pas" to get them to switch back to Spanish... Actually, though, since the filming of this video, we've all had a lot of fun studying French together too. It's kind of wonderful, because I've wanted to learn French for a long time, and now I have 3 adorable study buddies. The baby fell in love with a French song called "Je Suis Une Pizza", so we're learning all the most important vocabulary right away hahahahah.
@@heatherwhiteley3556 Je suis une pizza is a great kids song. You should also look up C'est l'halloween and Bonhomme Bonhomme.
Music is key! My kids were so reluctant to speaking Spanish even though they understood a vast majority of what I was saying. Speaking it was where they struggled. I was also having issues being consistent because I just wanted them to communicate with me. Listening to only spanish music at home sparked their interest in speaking bc they wanted to know what the words they sung meant. It associated Spanish with happiness and dancing and overall made speaking spanish more fun once it was attached to melody. Everyday they say new phrases and I have been working hard with consistency on my part. Music helps us bridge the gaps. And I'm sure it will work for you too.
I live in the US. I speak Spanish and English thanks to my mom who’s from Costa Rica. My partner speaks English but I plan on raising bilingual children 🥰🙏🏾
I am glad that she mentions the challenges that experts warn about: do not speak a language that you struggle with being spontaneous in, that you don't know well as PRIMARY language, and there are really many many reasons for this. There are many multilinguals - like myself - who could choose from two or more languages to speak as primary language with their children, but we are an exception. It is of utmost importance to speak a language you can bond on an emotional level with your child, be spontaneous and do NOT have to look up words when interacting with your children!
You can always ADD another language when your children are around 3-4 years old, or add it at very clear moments (using the Time and Place strategy) even earlier on, hire a nanny who speaks the target language and therefore use the strategy that for babies and toddlers is easier to understand: One Person One Language.
I understand the intention of the parents, but the children can feel when we express ourselves better in the other language and they sense the filter that the language we're not so fluent in puts between us and them. You don't want to risk that.
This all said, I grew up multilingual myself and raised my, now all adult, three children with multiple (5-7) languages too. It is possible to do this in a healthy and effective way...
First off... 👏👏👏👏 you both are doing an amazing job! I was born and raised in the USA and Spanish being my first language. I cant say I'm fluent in either languages and that's with me having a learning disability in reading comprehension. Spanish is definitely a language I plan on teaching my children when I have them as well as American Sign language. Jordan, I get how intimidating it could be to speak another language in front of those who are native speakers but your Spanish is REALLY GOOD! if there is one thing I learned throughout my Communication Sciences and Disorders degree it's that you have to take ownership of the language and don't let others make you doubt in your ability. That is honestly the best example you can set your children especially when you are out in public with them. As a teacher, I lead my example... and you both have been doing a good job at doing so too from the looks of things!
Jordan speaks Spanish very well. Don’t be afraid to speak to native speakers. As a learner of the language, I’ve found them to be soo very helpful and amenable to helping us learn. I think you’re both doing a great job! I’m the single other person speaking only Spanish to my grandkids. I love the language and really wish my adult Latin children knew their native language but was frustrated with working all day and coming home trying to teach them Spanish when they were at daycare/school hearing English all day long. I’m trying not to let that happen with my grand babies. Thanks for all the excellent tips!
In morocco it's normal to speak arabic(or amazigh or rifi) and french(plus spanish in the north) and it's common to speak english as well
I’m so grateful for this video, I was giving up with raising my son bilingual due that he doesn’t say any word in English even though he understands it. But this video has encouraged me to keep going on and the tips are really useful. Thank you so much 😊
I was raised with bilingual parents
My mom speaks Spanish and English
And my dad speaks Irish and English
I'm thankful because I can speak 3 languages
@@Tjmce Tá sé líofa, a chara. :)
I'm from Germany and my parents spoke Russian at home. It's so interesting that there's a variety of different methods of raising bilingual children.
Im first generation American from a Salvadorian family. I grew up speaking Spanish and English and I’m currently learning French. I hope to learn more languages and maybe in the future teach my kids the same too
This is the best video I've seen by fay woth AMAZING tips and resources and your voice is so melodic. I'm not a native speaker but I know a good amount of Spanish and want my kids to be bilingual. This is soooo helpful. Thank you SOOOOO much
I was raised in a multilingual environment. We need to know our mother tongue, our national language and ofc English by the time we go to elementary school. Then a fourth language: state language is introduced. So yeah its pretty common here i guess
Dutch was my native language but I was always obsessed with America, I taught myself how to talk English, watching RUclips , english movies and more! Now I’m 12 years old and I live in The Netherlands, my whole family talks Dutch but I can still talk English :)
Speak english* speak dutch* it’s sounds weird if you “talk a language”
That’s great! Here’s a quick tip: the verb “to talk” is “speak”, so you would say “I taught myself how to speak English”. You’re English is very good though!
Im watching this 6 months later, please tell me she has her own channel now. I loved it!!!!!! Loved her and your cuñado! They should definitely start a channel.
this video is so helpful, thank you! I’m peruvian and I have a niece who is turning 2 in February, she lives with me and I speak english to her since day one. Nobody else at home speaks english so I try to speak as much english as I can every day and she has improved so much! it’s amazing to see how she understands almost everything I say and I can’t way for her to start talking to see if she can actually speak both languages. I’m so excited about this journey!
I've been talking about this with my husband. We're from Quebec so our first language is French, his "father tongue" and my second language is English and we live in Germany 😅
I'm due in October and, if we're allowed to see people then, the baby will hear all 3 languages from the beginning! I absolutely want the family language to be QC French, my husband will speak English with the baby and outside the house our friends and others will speak German. Can't wait to see how it goes! 😊
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How's going?
@@azuldelvalle so far very well, but she's only 4 months old :)
@@valisesgourmandises2571 How's your child doing now, may i ask ^_^
@@bahaashargui9209 she's doing well and seems to understand us both! But she's only 10 months now :)
She says maman, papa, dada, bye (it's sounds more like ba but you can tell it's supposed to be bye hehe).
We make sure to not use random words from the other languages when we speak, which we often do when we're talking just my husband and I. And we read a lot :)
Great video! And it got me reconsider the way I taught my daughter English. My wife and I are native speakers of Mandarin currently living in China, and we also speak (what we consider to be) pretty good English thanks to our studying and working experience in North America. When my daughter was younger, we tried to speak Mandarin and English to her interchangeably. But as soon as she started to speak up, her Mandarin proficiency has skyrocketed, since her grandparents speak Mandarin at home to her all the time when I go to work during the day, and she also attends a Mandarin kindergarten. And it's only natural that as she is turning 5 years old now, she has a growing preference to communicate increasingly complicated ideas in Mandarin, and her English is still very insufficient for the increasingly sophisticated communicational and emotional needs at her current age. This makes it a lot harder for us to adopt the 'minority language at home' or the 'one parent one language' rules than it would have been, had we started at her early age and stuck to it. We might have to accept the fact that we'll need to teach her English in the traditional learning method for typical second - language learners...
I’ve been learning Spanish since kindergarten because my school had a Spanish program where half the day would be in English the other half in Spanish.
I was 3 minutes in when I subscribed. I imagine your children have no problem falling asleep, your voice is SO soothing and you're so eloquent. Everything was so well-explained!
Wow! I'm so happy I came across this video! Thank you! It can be so isolating when so many friends of mine speak both English and Spanish, but aren't teaching their kids to be bilingual. They always ask me how I do it. I'm already doing most of these thing, but am looking forward to incorporating more. It also helps that my husband is on board with me and understands the importance.
My husband is from León Guanajuato. He is Deaf..so he uses LSM/Lengua de señas mexicanos for life, but he also knows English and American Sign Language. For me, I am an ASL interpreter and English teacher. For mis cuñad@s y suagra, they are pure Spanish. Our son and daughter are learning thru the OPOL which seems to work. There are time we have to interchange but I’m mostly English, hubby Sign, and in-laws here Spanish!
My native language is spanish and recently i decided to speak to my 2 year old daughter in english to raise her as bilingual. Thanks a lot for this video, it's very motivating and gives me great ideas to keep going.
How good is your English ? Are you at native level?
@@lillatoth4214 IDK, Don't think so since I'm living in Mexico and don't have many opportunities to practice it. I work as a telemarketing telephonist on english so at least it's not basic i assume.
@@Modernoprometeo Thank you for your answer.
Thank you so much for this video! I'm American living in Mississippi. I have a bachelor's degree in Spanish. I developed a love for Spanish language very young and stayed in Madrid, Spain for 10 weeks in 2012 teaching 2 wonderful kids English while I became fluent in Spanish. I had my first child a few months ago and I'm trying to figure out how to teach him both English and Spanish. This video has definitely helped me develop my own plan. Thank you very much!
Soy Paraguaya, mi país ya es un país bilingüe (hablamos español y guaraní, nuestro idioma indígena) de pequeña viví en Brasil unos años por lo que tuve que aprender también portugués, y desde los 16 trato de aprender inglés, esos idiomas previos me ayudan a comprender que no siempre se puede trasmitir la misma idea perfectamente en otro idioma y también permitió que mi lengua se acostumbre a muchísimos sonidos diferentes que facilitan a que mejore la pronunciación.
Hi I am from Brazil and my husband is American .My son is 6 years old and I did not teach him my language" portuguese "as a baby but I want to start now .It is very important to learn your mother language and be able to talk with your grandparents and family . Also , it will be a good benefit for his future .Thank you for your tips ! It was very helpful .
I live in Russia, and the Russian is my first language. I teach my one-and-a-half year daughter English from her birth, despite my proficiency in English is not very high (upper-intermediate at best). And I am very excited with this! I definetely see the results of my efforts and this is very motivating and makes me happy! And it allows me to enhance my own skills as well )) Unfortunately my wife does not speak English but her support is important! And thanks God for RUclips - classic English nursery rhymes help a lot! I am looking for other parents in Novosibirsk who are obsessed with the idea of teaching their kids English, please leave your comments here!
Hi, I am from Russia and I try to speak English with my kids too! It’s been four years since this comment was left. How it’s going now? Does your child speak two languages now? Please, share your experience!
I'm an American living in Norway with a Norwegian husband and we have completely failed to do any of these 3 models specifically- we have mostly English at home but use Norwegian too, we mostly use Norwegian with the grandparents but I still speak English with them sometimes. But at 6+7 my two kids are completely bilingual and can switch seamlessly. It's incredible to witness
Excellent advice about teaching English to our children. You should have your own you tube channel. Your English is very beautiful and clear.
Hi Heather~ Your experience is so encouraging. I'm pregnant with two amazing boys kicking my belly right now. I'm from Korea, my mother tongue is Korean. And I speak English and mandarin Chinese with my husband who is Taiwanese. We live in Korea, but I don't want to use a language which my husband can't understand quite well. So I decided to speak English! Still a little worried about it because it's not my first language. If I cannot remember simple words like diapers or socks, it might be terrifying. It's a big challenge for me and my husband. I hope my kids can be a fluent multilingual later on. Thanks for nice video. Seems like I'm not alone!
I am Scottish :) I speak English and very little Gaelic for now. I am learning now so that when I have my own children I can teach them the language of their motherland 🏴☺️
Heather is so adorable, I love her way of speaking slow and gentle, i don't know. I love her.
I would love my children to speak English, I teach English but it's so hard at home to speak English to them. I'll try harder.
Thanks for your recomendations Heather.
This is great! I one day want to raise my children to be bilingual. I’ve been starting early and speaking to my dogs only in Spanish. My first language is English and I’m still learning Spanish, but speaking to my dogs really helps my learning. When I don’t know what to say I figure out how to say it. It’s also cool because he listens to
Me and nobody else when they try to tell him to do stuff in English.
Lamo! Have you seen the video re a guy who got a free puppy that was partially trained? Problem was, the dog was trained in Spanish & the guy was trained in English. Lol, rofl! Look up dame la mano puppy.
Love your explanation, so clear and understandable. I’m Dutch and my wife’s Cuban and we’re using the OPOl method and our 18 month your old barely speaks but she understands both languages. Sometimes it’s hard to keep it up but seeing videos like this really helps! Keep up the good work!
Dear Parents, Want to Raise Brilliant Kids? well, trust me, nothing worth fighting for if it wasn't for your children. Invest in your child's future by teaching him/her to read in early age in a very efficient scientific way using a guaranteed exclusive program. You won't loose anything. Watch those typical instructions and don't forget to share with your loved ones:
ruclips.net/video/RR3reaJHV_8/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/YN8lUKyBLBQ/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/w9Lj1KQtvPU/видео.html
Cheers 👍😉
Thanks for the video! These are great tips. I’m raising my son bilingual and was getting discouraged because my husband isn’t a native speaker or knows much Spanish.
I raised my two boys bilingually, even though Spanish was also a second language for me that I did not learn until I was 30. We spoke always in Spanish until he was about 6 years old, but he still has excellent receptive skills and OK spoken skills. He is now 35 and expecting his first child; he and his wife came to me and asked me to be the Spanish-speaking abulelita, which I'm thrilled to be able to do.
I'm currently 11 weeks pregnant and always wanted to raise my children to be bi or multi lingual. I am equally fluent in English, Polish, and Vietnamese. The pronunciation of which are widely different so I really want to teach them all 3 languages. However, teaching Polish whilst living in Vietnam could be quite distant for them so I'm now considering reducing to 2 languages: vietnamese and english.
Sooo did you teach your children more languages 🙏🏽 I would love an update!
Excellent!!!! My daughter was born in US, she speaks perfect English and Spanish, she’s now learning french and german. She loves it and we love to see her so happy and social.
I was raised bilingually myself and I also did linguistic research on child bilingualism. I thought your video was great. Usually you see a lot of people doing similar video topics but it's mostly crap. Your video actually reflected actual linguistic research as far as I know. Well done.
Heather and Holly, thank you so much for this video!!! I was born in Argentina and raised in the States and today I am determined to teach my children both languages (English and Spanish). My son is 3 years old and can transition to the language they are speaking to him with no problem (although he prefers English). We current live in Argentina, he and his sister were born here... Thanks for the tips!!! Heather needs to make a youtube, I'd be her number 1 fan!
¡Amo este canal! No sólo porque entretiene, sino porque también educa con excelentes vídeo.
You are doing your kids such a great favor!
Spanish is my first language and I started learning English in kindergarten. We moved to the US when I was 12 and through middle school my English comprehension soared while my Spanish faltered a bit. THANKFULLY my mom is a badass and MADE me take Spanish in high school and I'm SO thankful for that! I am now fluent in both and a pretty kick ass interpreter if I do say so myself. For the last three years I've been teaching myself Portuguese. It's a process lol.
Oh my god the "delayed" speech thing drives me nuts! Yes, it's good to monitor kids to detect if they need help in certain areas, but some people nowdays are crazy about it. Great job on not letting this deter you from being a bilingual household!
My little cousin is two and three months, and his parents were told by the pediatrician he might have a delay because he wasn't speaking. Low and behold, about four months ago he started talking up a storm in full sentences in both languages. Now he's working on his numbers and colors.
I'm from Veracruz, I'm 15 years old, And I don't know why but I know how to talk in English, my parents didn't put me on a Bilingual school, and they doesn't know how to talk in English and I could say that I learned English by myself, I met a lot of americans through all my life, and one of em' told to me that I talk really good even for being Mexican, and until now I'm still doing the same thing, because I like the English.
I mean, you could learn a lot of difficult things just if you really want to.
I am from Spain, I live in Los Angeles, CA and I have an 8 year old daughter. Her mom is from Veracruz, Mexico and we only speak to her in Spanish. She speaks beautiful Spanish and English and she's great translating between the two languages. She mixes a little Castilian and Mexican Spanish but I love it. We've always taught her to be proud of her three cultures. As we say half Spanish, half Mexican and 100% American.
0:36-0:39 is the CUTEST thing i’ve ever heard.
Holly thank you so very much for your encouraging videos! speaking from experience in struggling & striving so much for my children to be bilingual; it's always encouraging to see and hear other parents with similar dilemmas. We've also try the one person one language and it works great when alone with a child. We speak the minority language when all of us are together. We've also checked out resources from our libraries and video content and it's definitely helpful to remind the children that are second language isn't imaginary or made up 😂😂.
“I KNOW EVERYTHING!” 😂 Yyeeaahhh, that’s how I first felt when I started being able to communicate in a foreign language, too...
hahahahaha It's so true!
This is what I appreciate a lot. I live in the Caribbean and everyone knows max 4 languages (Spanish, English, Dutch and our native language) I also learned french at school, I can't wait to teach my kids these languages.
Que vérsatilidad la de estos pequeños. Impresionante deveras.
Gracias por el vídeo. Me gustaría saber a partir de qué edad les empiezan a hablar en el segundo idioma a sus hijos. Tengo una nena de 3 meses, debería empezar ya? Agradezco a quien me pueda responder
@@genesisjimenez4727 sí, mientras más temprano mejor
I do agree ! Heather needs her YT channel. I'm Mexican resident of US and I have 2 babys with my American Husband and both wish and want are babys to be bilingual. Great Tips !!!
Much Muchas Gracias por compartir tus ideas!!
Lo veo dos veces por que si
¿ARC? Same.
X2 ❤️❤️❤️
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Ysi x4
I have watched this video twice now reforces me to not give up and stay focused on being a bilingual parent.
Love it, Heather!! Thank you for sharing all your knowledge. Being bilingual has been so special and important to me and it is a gift I want to give my children too.
I just love the education that ur giving to your children it’s so sad as a Hispanic that so many of my friends don’t speak Spanish which is our primary languages through generations
My kids attend Spanish immersion! I knew it when I was young but you know what they say, if you don't use it lol. Pero yo entiendo mas. So my poor English speaking husband is left out a bit but because I dont speak it I have a hard time getting them to use Spanish at home. So this gave me some encouragement to get back on it. Also the app "Microsoft translate" is amazing. You can speak, write or even take a picture and have it translated appropriately. If you get the paid app you can also use the part to do real time conversation translation.
It really works, I have my daughter watch movies and every screen time she gets, it has to be in English, since our primary language is Spanish, we also get books in English, to read to her before bedtime, she was just 3 when she started speaking full sentences in English, and she used them in the right context, she was not just repeating them, she understood what she was saying, it amazes me how kids can learn languages easily. Another thing you could try is to find something your kid really enjoys and try to do it in the target language, try to keep it fun, as if it were a game. Also can you make a version of this in Spanish, so I could share it with my daughter's class group, I think it could be helpful.
Another tip is to listen to songs in Spanish. Jose Luis Orozco, and Whistle Fritz Language Immersion program have great music in Spanish.
Dear Heather, thank you very much for your tips, I’m Spanish, I live in Spain, I’m an English teacher at a public school and I’m trying to speak English with my two year boy and my 4 month baby, some times it’s really really tough cause I’m tired or sleepy but I don’t want to give up.
Soy de México pero mi primer idioma fue Inglés y en mi casa hablábamos en inglés y afuera de casa español fue muy bueno eso pero con el tiempo no tuve más vocabulario del inglés
What a spectacular gift for a parent to give to their children, communication!
Love your singing voice!!! Your tips are really good.
Excellent!! I'm teaching my son English, which is my second language. I really appreciate all the tips and advices from Heather. I am alone in the challenge of creating an environment for my son in English. Here in Chile the only language my son hears at school and outside the house is Spanish. It's hard for me to tell how inspiring and supportive this video has been to me. Thank you so much! I'll try to follow all your advices. Some of the things you advice I already do by instinct, so I'm glad to be on the right path and ready to put into practice things like.... being part of an online community so I don't feel alone anymore in this challenge. I'm so grateful and even emotional with this video!!
I’m italian and I’ve always been in love with languages. I’m trying to improve my english skills as much as I can in order to teach it also to my children one day in the future. I would like to have bilingual children. I’ve studied other languages in high school and I’m majoring in Japanese now at university. Japanese language is becoming my third language because I’m trying hard to be fluent also in that. I don’t know if my partner will be Japanese but if that will be the case, I hope my children will speak italian and japanese. In case of same language partner, I will surely speak to them in english. But who knows in life what will happen.
heather you are amazing, so many people told me i could not speak english to my children because it‘s not my native language! you just gave me hope, thank you!!
Wow I'm so glad you're helping people raising bilingual kids
You really are amazing ♥
Couldn't get enough of this video , loved it and the end so cute 😍
Hermoso video. Y que clarito hablas ojala y asi me hablaran en el trabajo , yo sufro sufro. Gracias Heather y Holly y a toda tu hermosa familia.
Heather you are such a great mother! I plan on teaching my children English and Español too, and this video was super helpful 💕