When to start teaching baby spanish
How we raise our BILINGUAL baby | Spanish & English | 18 months old | 50 words
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hi everyone so a few people have
requested this video on different videos
I've uploaded and that is how we're
raising new Theo to be bilingual I'm
English my husband is Spanish and Lucio
is 18 months old
you'll be 19 months old when this video
goes up I think but his spoke up array
is in like getting bigger and bigger
every single day he knows so many words
his linking word and he's speaking both
Spanish and English so I haven't read
any books I don't know any technical
ways of doing this it's literally just
how drum and I are raising nuclear
boiling water and I thought I'd share it
with you it might be helpful and
interested me you guys to know kind of
how we do it so he can say so many words
and recently he's been linking words as
well so yeah he's here now with me he's
saying I stuck so you might hear him in
the background of this video as well I
want to join with me to do this video
because obviously it's about both
languages and everything but he works
literally six days a week and he comes
home cut lay around bath time flew here
anyway I'm often in he he's super busy
and I can't pin him down to film a video
and I want to do this video so Lucio can
say low English words and latest on the
trend he also knows the spanish and
english word for the same thing i've
been also he knows just the english or
just the spanish for some things as well
so for example he knows please and papa
for next thank you and gracias he knows
bye bye and a d awesome but then he will
only know us and saw which is lift in
spanish only knows and why he doesn't
know water and then he only knows things
like all gone in english but he doesn't
know the spanish that by the dua
but yet he kind of knows song just
English and some just Spanish cameos
there can you see yourself hey hello
I've tried to write down all of the
words that he knows in both languages
he's repeating what we say a lot but
these are kind of like words that he
actually uses himself so he knows in
English he knows hello goodbye please
thank you he laid out all non banana
spoon but he says news for spoon so
that's kind of I guess I don't know does
he know that one I don't know all gone
he says here it is a neat lid yeah he's
saying lid you've got the lid you shown
the minute Oh lid that way mommy's happy
Oh leo what else do you know Spanish he
knows I sense or gracias adios hola
mass like yeah he will only say I'm mass
which is there's more in Spanish she
doesn't say that in English she knows a
key ie which is here and there so many
what else do you know you know loads of
Spanish and I think on this but yeah I'm
just kind of reeling off all the words
that you know he knows so many words
it's crazy so what we do it's basically
he's spent the first 15 months of his
life lived in the UK and he spent the
last three months they've been in Spain
when we were living in the UK and I try
to use more Spanish than what I do now
just because everyone we were coming
across industry or TV and everything
like that was in English or my family or
English so everyone he was seeing was
just speaking English it's only Joanne
who was speaking Spanish so I try to
speak a lot more Spanish in the UK now
we've moved to Spain I
they try to only speak to him in English
I do use some Spanish just mix it up a
bit just because I naturally do that
anyway but majority not 80% is English
and 20% Spanish Joanne has always
primarily spoked spoken to him in
Spanish your sunglasses are the missin
glasses
oh no glasses no glasses thank you Hey
oh man no upper hand which is in Spanish
and he knows English word hand there on
upside down I put them the right way
no no really well yes so now Joanne
we'll put that on at the end okay I'm by
a fine of hard think of words as it is
and then when he's like here distracted
means it's like impossible
I see husband goes Joanne still speaks
to him primarily in Spanish Joanne who
use English if he's like misbehaving and
he won't have his Napoli changed or some
things he made happy like the work
because they have you known everything
like he understands everything is saying
yeah I'll tell you when to say bye-bye
so on the main hair so I'm speaking to
him mainly in English and so Joanne in
order to get him copies let me change or
something you will say it in English and
there's other things like if he wants
him to do something that he knows that
he'll probably understand more English
he'll say that but then he also follows
it up with Oh with the Spanish as well I
know we've got the camera resting on his
books that sure book isn't it he knows
book hey to say book look okay you want
to come here so you can see yourself in
the screen that come here that sit here
there you are look there is okay so when
we were living in the UK I used to play
TV in English little babies also
in space and actually living in Spain
he's obviously watched a lot more
Spanish TV and English so in England he
wasn't exposed I'm not gonna put the put
the glasses on oh yeah they go don't
look oh oh why did you put them on you
put them on my balls
you want mommy to put them on Wow cool
dude oh dude yeah yeah yeah that better
right so um so in the UK he was watching
a lot of English lately exposed to a lot
of English and some Spanish but he was
still his first word he ever said was
agua and he and math for maths so he
actually you know maybe they all exposed
too much Spanish yeah a lot so famous
what showed up Spanish TV distinguish I
use YouTube to search for his favorite
TV cartoon in English and but he watches
a lot of Spanish cartoons there's a
channel called clan which has a lot of
the cartoons that he's actually hey here
in Spain so in Spanish obviously you
seem to run to me a lot more as well so
he's speaking Spanish there and it's
really strange because when he's with me
he will later on he will speak sometimes
he mixes it and he'll just say as much
word or word but we can see how it's
gonna be developing as well be able to
separate it I think it's when they're
about three or four rate it really well
so I have always just spoken to him all
of the time like what I'm doing maybe
yeah I repeat words and I just taught in
more time and I think that happens a lot
with your child I think yeah I mean I
don't have any more children but I can
imagine if I had another one now I won't
be able to put the
say I'm at a time talking to as Lou to
like that one-on-one time we basically
just talk and talk sing songs join the
with some Spanish that she writes to him
I sing love him I would say the balance
is about 70% English and 30% Spanish
throughout his life living in England or
living in Spain he has had kind of like
a 70/30 kind of balance with the Spanish
and English well English and Spanish but
he spoke up and he knows just as much
Spanish as he does English you know some
Spanish words but not English worse and
vice versa
and I don't think it needs to be a 50/50
like when we first had Lucia we didn't
know kind of how we were going to do
things like we were worried to be not
worried to begin with but very aware to
try and give him like a 50/50 like 50
English 50 Spanish naturally for me I
want to speak to him in English it's
just my mother tongue and naturally for
Joanne in Spanish although Joanne
because he's lived in the UK for 10
years English it's kind of more a
natural language to him as well but what
I'm trying to say is that I don't think
need to stretch yourself output to be
like a 50-50 I think just a 70/30 %
Balint it seems to be working okay for
him now there will be more English soon
because when he starts school or nursery
when he's about three he will be taught
in Spanish they start scored three in
Spain legally it's from six but
everybody puts their kids into school
from three and to get a place in the
school kind of have to get them in early
you don't have to there are I know some
parents who aren't but we'll see how the
theories at the time when he goes to
nursery or school he will be taught in
Spanish that our bilingual schools but
the ones were looking at and for him as
a school will be taught in Spanish so
then there'll be more English in
home Joanne will probably start speaking
to him more in English in the home
Johanna and I communicate mostly in
English anyway so he hears us talking in
English more than Spanish so it'll
naturally work that way if we would even
in the UK I would have to force myself
when he started school I would force
myself to speak mainly in Spanish in the
home he's so sweet and I did it now in
choir because he's got his done them I
am trying to wean him off of these
things and only have them at bed but I
needed them right now for this video
so just to recap Lucio can say I would
imagine I wrote down about 3540 words
but he's coming up with new words all of
the time his vocabulary is huge
can I get in the camera please mister oh
look at those eyelashes goodness me I'm
jealous of those eyelashes the old books
we have English books and Spanish books
more English and Spanish I read to him
mainly I want trying to start reading to
him more and in Spanish because I think
it's really good when both parents read
to them especially being a boy I think
it's really good for him to see his dad
reading and his dad reading to him
because apparently statistically boys
don't read as much as girls but he
absolutely loves books like really
really loves book Oh what we do do as
well say we see a glass and then always
saying to him glass to teach him that
it's glass yeah glasses he will save the
Spanish word as well like Bassel so
we'll say glass battle glass bustle and
then he sorry I don't know no one um oh
my goodness what of my life come to for
you wearing kitty sling vs. filming a
video that's going out to the world yes
we'll say the English and Spanish when
he's learning the word like livin and
I'm hi any noise and I'm her and not
orange so recently other thing orange
orange
and he'll repeat orange but he naturally
says that I'm half which is fine as long
as he knows orange and I think as well
like there's going to be phases
where he'll use mostly Spanish ammos
language and it's glitchless I believe I
read anything about this but my instinct
tells me it's just his brain sorting it
all out and learning it and it's
repetition isn't it so sometimes he will
say more Spanish sometimes he'll say
more English when he's with Joanne like
I said he will say more Spanish than
English so for example with that I'll
put them on yeah shut put them on my
head like that little example he'll go
that way to tell me which way you'd like
to go if we're in the park or something
like that say that way that way when
he's with Joanne Joanne says por aqui
York ye and Lucile sake or boy boy Ikey
so he he adapts to do and he'll speak
more Spanish when he's with John's
family he'll say see into the yes and
he'll say adios and hola and say a lot
more in Spanish than English because
he's hearing more Spanish all the time
around him he naturally goes to that
which I think so clever and I'm so
excited to see how it's going to evolve
and how he's going to kind of develop
his language skills and when he's in
school I I know he's going to be coming
home and speaking a lot more Spanish and
English but I think as long as you keep
going and I'm gonna be consistent with
it and always speak to them in both
languages they will as they get older
they'll be able to separate - and use
whichever one they feel most comfortable
with that's about it I think for this
video I'm so sorry I hope you heard all
about editing chat in everything ah yeah
glasses oh you know to Concord you you
know both Spanish and English for those
don't you we sing the head shoulders
knees and toes song in both languages so
I'll say head shoulders knees and toes
and then for the facial features I'll
say it in Spanish like a father a
husband you know these so we're singing
the song in both languages but then he
also knows the English in his eyes is
nose mouth so yeah that's another thing
we do when mixing mixing the two
languages with songs as well
I hope that has given you kind of an
insight as to what we do
I've tried to capture him say in words
but as soon as I get the camera out he
just shuts down and he's
talking like I'll be chatting all day
he'll be pointed at things that they say
in the words for things
see as I get to come around does it
wanna know on a mobile phone secretly
and I probably inserted what I got at
the beginning of this video
he's a bright little chatterbox I would
say he knows between Spanish and English
about 50 words right now time to say
goodbye this don't say bye-bye
hey say bye-bye and say adios say adios
oh yes go save your Spanish viewers
adios I do there we go Hey okay we're
gonna go now
adios he has two Bronto oh god yes bye
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