751-How I Taught My Children to Speak Fluent Spanish in One Year With No Teachers, No Classes, and No Playmates or Spanish-Speaking Friends
Radical Personal Finance
Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP
4.2 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
One year ago my wife and I decided to teach our children Spanish. At the time, they spoke zero Spanish. We succeeded in the project even though:
- They don't go to a Spanish-speaking school
- They don't have any Spanish-speaking friends
- They've not taken any Spanish classes
- They don't have anybody speaking Spanish to them full-time
In this episode, I'll teach you how I did it.
Joshua
P.S. Stay tuned to the end to hear my eldest speaking in Spanish so you can assess his level of Spanish for yourself.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Radicals, Bimminidos, Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge |
| 0:04.5 | skills, insight and encouragement you need, to live a rich and meaningful life now, while building |
| 0:08.7 | a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less. |
| 0:11.3 | My name is Joshua Sheets, I am your host host and today I'm going to share with you a story and some |
| 0:16.6 | lessons. The story is how I have taught my children to be fluent in Spanish in less than one year without being part of a Spanish-speaking |
| 0:27.3 | community, without enrolling them in a Spanish-speaking school entirely at home as part of our |
| 0:32.4 | overall homeschool curriculum and I'm going to share |
| 0:35.9 | the story with you and share some of the lessons because I think these are lessons |
| 0:39.7 | that are very applicable and helpful to your life. |
| 0:43.0 | This show will not contain any technical financial planning. |
| 0:46.8 | This is one of those living a rich life. |
| 0:48.6 | I think that languages enrich your life. |
| 0:50.7 | I think there's a very good reason to teach yourself multiple foreign languages, |
| 0:55.0 | to teach your children multiple foreign languages. |
| 0:56.8 | It opens up new cultures to you, new countries to you, new regions of the world, new employment opportunities that may relate to your financial life in a very strong way. |
| 1:06.8 | It may help your children in a very strong way, but I'm not going to be talking about financial plan, I'm talking about language learning. |
| 1:14.3 | But I'm pretty excited with some of the results that I've achieved in the last year, |
| 1:17.2 | applying some methods that I made up and have since found out that other people are |
| 1:21.4 | applying successfully as well, and I'll share those |
| 1:24.2 | with you because I think the results have been pretty astonishingly spectacular and I |
| 1:30.0 | want to share them with you now for one very specific reason. |
| 1:36.0 | I'm close enough to remember what I have done and what I am doing, but far enough along to have results. |
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