http://20somethingmom.com/2010/03/bilingual-strides/ chronicles of a young mom Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:37:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://20somethingmom.com/2010/03/bilingual-strides/comment-page-1/#comment-1625 Monica Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:37:22 +0000 http://20somethingmom.com/?p=158#comment-1625 I have just discovered the "SpanglishBaby" website and consequently, your blog, as I began reading a book called "Raising a Bilingual Child" by Barbara Zurer Pearson (which I would highly recommend). I really enjoy reading what you write! I am also relatively young (26) and pregnant with my first. What encourages me the most is that you don't consider yourself a native speaker of Spanish, yet you are persevering and succeeding in raising your son to be bilingual (and by yourself at that)! I am not a native speaker either, and didn't really grow up in a bilingual household, although interestingly enough, my mom was born in Cuba (my dad is American). Anyway, for various reasons she did not raise my siblings and me speaking Spanish at home, although the 3 of us learned it mostly in high school and college, and though not native, I would say are fairly fluent speakers of Spanish. Coincidentally, my husband also has one parent that was born in Cuba, and his language upbringing is very similar to mine. So we are considering raising our child/children bilingually, but are somewhat intimidated/apprehensive since we are not native speakers ourselves. It is great to hear that it can be done, and I am excited to see if we can do it. Your hard work and effort is paying off with your son, it seems, and I hope we are able to do the same! I have just discovered the “SpanglishBaby” website and consequently, your blog, as I began reading a book called “Raising a Bilingual Child” by Barbara Zurer Pearson (which I would highly recommend). I really enjoy reading what you write! I am also relatively young (26) and pregnant with my first. What encourages me the most is that you don’t consider yourself a native speaker of Spanish, yet you are persevering and succeeding in raising your son to be bilingual (and by yourself at that)! I am not a native speaker either, and didn’t really grow up in a bilingual household, although interestingly enough, my mom was born in Cuba (my dad is American). Anyway, for various reasons she did not raise my siblings and me speaking Spanish at home, although the 3 of us learned it mostly in high school and college, and though not native, I would say are fairly fluent speakers of Spanish. Coincidentally, my husband also has one parent that was born in Cuba, and his language upbringing is very similar to mine. So we are considering raising our child/children bilingually, but are somewhat intimidated/apprehensive since we are not native speakers ourselves. It is great to hear that it can be done, and I am excited to see if we can do it. Your hard work and effort is paying off with your son, it seems, and I hope we are able to do the same!

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