Many of you know through our tweets and our Facebook updates that my daughter and I are currently in El Salvador visiting the family for one whole month. It has been two years since the last time we were here and a trip was long overdue, especially for Camila. My daughter, who just turned three, read more ...
I had never thought of including a music video as part of our Video of the Week, but our reader and friend, Melissa Basadre, recommended this one by the very popular bachata artist Prince Royce. In her words: “I’m sure you’ve heard this version of Stand By Me but I wanted to share it with read more ...
Found this cute video by Clever Little Peas on You Tube. It’s meant to help your Spanish-learners to recognize the names of zoo animals in Spanish. ¡Disfruta! By the way, we just found out that are most popular post is a Video of the Week featuring the Cantinflas Show! Thought that was an interesting tidbit read more ...
One of our amazing contributors, Suzanne García Mateus, introduces us to her beautiful baby girl. Baby’s Name: Sabrina Marie Mateus Parents Names: Suzanne & Marcus Mateus City where you reside: Austin, Texas Languages Spoken: We are speaking Spanish and English simultaneously with the intent of merging towards Spanish only. Still getting the hang of the read more ...
You’ve already been reading on our Facebook page, Twitter stream and on Tuesday’s post that last week Roxana and I spent four days together in NYC during the BlogHer annual convention. To be able to continue to grow SpanglishBaby into an organic community with real and loud voices, we need to branch out where people read more ...
Originally published on January 27, 2010 To find out more about Naomi Steiner and to send her, or any of our experts, your questions please click here. Today´s question was sent from England by Monica. I’m an Italian mum of a three-year-old girl. My husband is Portuguese and we live in England. At the moment read more ...
I am lucky–very lucky–to have many friends who are raising bilingual children around me. Our weekly playdates with Dariela´s son, Adrián, have become a source of intense joy for Camila. I can´t help but say how cute they are together! I´ve told you before how Adrián, who´s being raised with the OPOL method, knows to read more ...
I’m getting myself ready to travel with my daughter, Camila, to El Salvador where we will spend one whole month with la familia. It will be such an amazing full-immersion experience for her right now at the age of three. I will have many stories to share from there and I’m planning on keeping you read more ...
I had been waiting for someone to finally come up with exactly these type of bilingual and bicultural greeting cards and Viva Greetings hit the mark. When Carla, owner and designer, contacted me so I could find out about her online shop I clicked over not expecting much. Then, first thing I saw when her read more ...
It’s been a while since we’ve done this, so we think we’re due for another round of letting you be the experts. After all, you live in a bilingual environment day in and day out; that in itself makes you an expert–a voice to be heard. Sarah Kalert reads our site from her new home read more ...
My baby is finally starting to use his sign language with me! It is so exciting to have him let me know his wants and needs through signs. I had used sign language with my first son, and it was a wonderful way to communicate before he could speak. We stuck to the basics—milk, more, read more ...
I come from a long line of atypical Latin American women who don’t really know how to cook. (My mom won’t be happy I’m divulging this information. Sorry mamita, I still think you’re an amazing woman!). I don’t have pangs of nostalgia for my grandmother’s arroz con pollo or for my tía’s empanadas. Growing up, read more ...
Most of us have been affected one way or another by the economic woes this country has been through in the last couple of years. And, although children might be too young to understand all the implications and repercussions of a bad economy, they are not blind to the changes these bring about in their lives. Yet, at least for read more ...
