I do not speak Spanish, but I am currently teaching myself Spanish and I also want to teach my son Spanish as well. He is 15 months now and I’m starting to teach him words and phases I say everyday to him (first English then I’ll say it in Spanish). Any tips/advice on how I can teach both of us successfully...or how you are teaching your babies?
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I speak french and Wolof (a language from Senegal 🇸🇳) and my baby speaks both ( or understands lol, she just says several words yet). Her big sister speaks Portuguese and that’s what they use. So basically she can communicate in 3 languages, I was a little bit scared in the beginning because neuroscientists always advise us to use only one language at a time but I couldn’t help it since my husband and I use 3 languages in the house (even tho we don’t really talk to her in English, she’ll learn it in school). Babies are sponges so just practice with her she’ll catch everything.
You can watch “Babies” on Netflix, some episodes talk about language, it’s very interesting.

My husband speaks both English and Spanish, and I only speak English. I am currently using an app on my phone to learn Spanish and between that and my husband it is getting easier. We use both Spanish and English with our son. He understands booths but only speaks English.

Have you guys watched the babies documentary on Netflix? From what i understood they said when one parent speaks in English and the other in the language they want to teach its the best way

Mexican immigrant 🙋🏽♀️ English is my second language my daughter and bf are learning Spanish

I have a 3 month old son and I speak with him in Tagalog and his dad speak to him in Spanish. At first I’m a little scared cuz he might be confuse but it looks like he understand it cuz he responds every time we talk to him in 2 languages. They can learn English on tv or school.

How have you been teaching yourself? I've been wanting to learn to teach my kids

Ok thank you 😊