Hola! We're working on a series of in-depth articles regarding the OPOL method and would love it if you can help us out… If you're family uses this method, One-Parent/One-One Language, to raise your children bilingual, we'd love to hear from you regarding your biggest challenge.

You can do this in two ways. The first one is by answering our one-question poll which you can find on our main page on the sidebar to the right. The second one by just letting us know right here in our forums. Mainly, we'd like to know what is the hardest part of using this method or what you find as the most challenging aspect of this method.

Gracias

I think our biggest challenge is that my family and my husband's family are basically monolingual, in different languages. Not only that, both sets of grandparents and most of the family are hundreds of miles away in opposite directions. Also, in our city there are lots of Spanish speakers, and lots of English speakers– but, there is a tendency at schools/ jobs/ churches/ parks/ grocery stores, etc. that the people who are there are speaking mostly in one language, or the other. I think it will be important for my son that we create memories for him where his "worlds" are not separated but are mixed, like they are inside him. Last year we were at Disney for a week with some people from both sides of the family; everyone got along fine, with a great attitude toward each other. It can get tiring to be constantly interpreting and arranging everything for the whole group. And most of the family CANNOT meet in the middle for immigration reasons. My husband & I will probably use all our vacation time for the next 15 to 20 years just taking our son to visit with family. (Forget the beach getaway!)