Hi Shannon, You wrote: >>but how can I get him to start responding to me in English now? Any tips would be appreciated. While I'm at it, any ammo I can get for convincing my parents that he really *will* talk well soon in English and that it will all be SO worth it once he's totally bilingual would be useful >>
Honestly, once you move to the States, your challenge will be maintaining the Spanish, which will only be accomplished by keeping it going at home and keep him responding in Spanish...Once you live in the States for a couple of months, you will see the transition happening to English only, and unless you insist in keeping the conversational Spanish going, he will lose it..Just tell his grand parents to give him a couple of months and they shall his English take off and live the growth by themselves.. When we moved to the States, my oldest son was four at the time, and he was speaking Spanish only... within months, his English was as good as his Spanish, and within a year, the English took over and now it is his first language, but he, now 8, is fully bilingual, because I always kept the Spanish going at home...If they speak to me in English, I always ask them to say it in Spanish. However, he reads and writes better in English. I am working with curriculum now to get his Spanish to be as good as his English.. My 5 year old was only 21 months when we moved, so he did not have as much exposure, and consequently, English became his first language even faster than it happened with my oldest. Good luck! And keep the Spanish going!:) Lymaris ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Help save the life of a child. Support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's 'Thanks & Giving.' http://us.click.yahoo.com/i8TXDC/5WnJAA/HwKMAA/W_NqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/multilingualmunchkin/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
