Spanish as a First Language

Latino USA

Futuro Media and PRX

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Being a new parent comes with a series of challenges—one being the decision whether or not to teach your child a second language. Latino USA explores the world of bilingual parenting through the story of two Dominican-American siblings growing up in the South, one who was drawn to Spanish and the other who never wanted to speak it. Both of the siblings are now parents and faced with the question: to teach your kids Spanish or not to teach your kids Spanish?

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This episode originally aired in 2018.

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0:00.0	So I'm here in the studio
0:07.0	So I'm here in the studio with producer and new mom,
0:11.0	Jeannie Montalbo.
0:12.0	Hey Maria.
0:13.0	So, Jeannie, you just had a baby boy, Martin?
0:17.0	Yes, and Maria, we talked a ton about having kids.
0:21.0	Yeah.
0:22.0	When I was pregnant, or when I wasn't pregnant or little did we know that I was
0:26.2	pregnant.
0:27.2	Then then next week you were like I'm pregnant.
0:31.6	JK and now he's seven months and it's flown by.
0:36.0	Love it. I love it.
0:38.0	And he's doing a lot of baa, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba.
0:49.1	So what language are you speaking to him in? We are speaking Spanish. 100%? 100%.
0:50.3	It's the first one thing. Immersion, all Spanish, all the time. percent.
0:53.0	Immersion, all Spanish, all the time.
0:55.0	My son, that's what we did with Raoul.
0:57.0	It was monolingual Spanish, 100% all the time.
1:00.0	And did it stick?
1:02.0	Totally, are you kidding?
1:03.0	He's multilingual now.
1:04.0	He has a facility for language and he's not afraid of it because we've spoken, well first he was monolingual Spanish and then when his sister came and that was where it got a little complicated.
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