111: Non-native bilingual parenting with Elisabeth Alvarado - a podcast by Interviews with experts and parents sharing best practices for raising and teaching bilingual children.
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On this episode of Bilingual Avenue, Elisabeth Alvarado shares her journey as a non-native bilingual mother. She shares her challenges and her successes and shares wonderful tips for parents raising kids in a language that is not the parent’s mother tongue.
On this podcast, Elisabeth shares with us:
-How she fell in love with Spanish;
-How languages are managed in her home with the Minority Language at Home strategy;
-How awkward it felt at first to speak a non-native language to her children the first day her son was born;
-How she worked through that first fork in the road where she had to chose between English & Spanish;
-How the effort paid off and now speaking Spanish is an engrained habit;
-How books have been helpful to add vocabulary to her days with her children;
-How she is preparing for when her children get to the point where they may prefer to speak Spanish to each other;
-Some funny interactions they have had with others when they are all together as a family;
-A proud parenting moment with family members in Peru while chatting on Skype;
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