swissmiss is an online garden (aka design blog) run by Tina Roth Eisenberg, a Swiss designer gone NYC.
raising your kids bi- or tri- lingual?
New York Public Radio wants to hear from bi- or tri-lingual parents. How do you raise your children; do you speak to them in different languages? Were you raised to speak two or more languages? Leave your story here.
I was raised in a household where both parents spoke Spanish, but as a second language. My sisters and I all speak dodgy Spanish, but English is our primary tongue. It’s always been a touchy subject with us because it kept as at arms distance from “real” Puerto Ricans — you know, like all my cousins who are married with two kids by age 21.
However, if I have children I am going to do my best to raise them speaking Spanish, and anything else I can throw in the mix. (Latin lesson please!)
Swissmiss is an online garden Tina Roth Eisenberg started in 2005 and has lovingly tended to ever since.
Besides swissmiss, Tina founded and runs TeuxDeux, CreativeMornings and her Brooklyn based co-working community Friends Work Here. (She also started Tattly which was recently adopted by BIC)
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http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/78-multilingual-children/
Feb 29th, 2008 / 2:24 pm
I was raised in a household where both parents spoke Spanish, but as a second language. My sisters and I all speak dodgy Spanish, but English is our primary tongue. It’s always been a touchy subject with us because it kept as at arms distance from “real” Puerto Ricans — you know, like all my cousins who are married with two kids by age 21.
However, if I have children I am going to do my best to raise them speaking Spanish, and anything else I can throw in the mix. (Latin lesson please!)
Feb 29th, 2008 / 2:58 pm