Audio – Bilingual Baby: Recent Episodes

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Raising a child in non-native Spanish

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I know the research says there are millions of neural connections forming per second in a newborn’s brain. I know they sleep so much because they are learning so much and are exhausted from it. Still. Until you get that eye contact, that smile, that squeal in response to something you said, it can be […]

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It doesn't take much to give this 4-year-old a case of the giggles. Listen in.

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I guess “Amigo” has been around a little more than a year now. It started one day as a game when I drew some eyes and a mouth on my hand and gave the little guy a name and a voice. At first, Bilingual Baby spoke English to him, and Amigo turned to look at […]

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We have arrived. If I let her, she would only speak to me in English. It would be so easy right now for us to slide into a pattern where I speak to her in Spanish and she speaks to me in English. That would be a move toward passive bilingualism, where she understands the […]

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Even paradise has problems, and earthquakes. Taking off my rose-colored glasses for this post.

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This post is dedicated to my mom, lover of birds.

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It’s hard to speak Spanish here. I’ll be honest—you don’t need it.

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Audio snippets from 15 months and 20 months.