Teaching a baby to be bilingual isn’t as hard as it looks. Remember that babies aren’t born knowing any language, but they do have the capacity to learn any language. They’re born with the capacity to make 40 sounds, and with that ability, they’re able to learn any...
Raising a bilingual child, even if you’re bilingual, is simply hard. Even harder if you’re in a multicultural marriage, where one of your speaks 2 languages, and the other only speaks 1. For example, someone who speaks English only, and someone who speaks English and...
If you do not speak Spanish, then it’s quite hard to help your child learn it! Maybe your children are in dual language, and you worry that they’ll forget all their Spanish this summer. Or, you wish with all your might that you were bilingual, but you’re one of those...
TruFluency Kids! Sat down with Sarah Padilla to hear about how she came to live in a trilingual household (Korean, English, and Spanish!), and how she envisions raising trilingual children. Where are you from? I’m a Military brat – so that’s a funny question. I...
TFK sat down with Alexandra Gastelum-Sullivan to hear about how she has succeeded in raising bilingual children. Where are you from? I was born in El Paso but was raised in Juarez, then came back to Texas for college. What language did you grow up speaking in your...