Good reasons for kids to learn heritage language & culture

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I speak Chinese and English. I wish I learned Portuguese I love their music but I'm too old and tired now

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Anonymous wrote:We speak English and Spanish at home. What matters they are good and empathetic kids.

That’s it? Wouldn’t they be better off if they spoke multiple languages and experienced multiple cultures? It’s not either or…

Yes we do embrace both cultures! We eat our parents traditional foods, I even speck the native indigenous language Quechua from Bolivia. Not many people speak it around here but I really like the language.
We like other countries traditions too like Dia de los Muertos to celebrate the good memories instead of crying, and Americans too like Halloween, Easter bunny and more

There are a gazillion Bolivians in Arlington and many in MoCo.

Naive. You just assumed they speak Quechua an indigenous language.
Do you speak Cherokee language, you dumb fk?

Blow me you fat 🐷

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Anonymous wrote:Our family originally comes from Austria and Poland. Assimilated Jews who survived the Holocaust. We try to keep the cultures relevant and on-going by eating a lot Polish food and by sending our kids to the German School for for elementary age years. They continue on weekends for language and other German/Austrian activities. Like other posters here, our kids travel to both countries regularly. Both are looking forward to doing student exchanges (AFS or Rotary) in high school and semester abroad-type study in college. We will also be going to those family language camps in Minnesota this summer.

I hated my Jewish parents. I'm not going to continue with the traditions when I get my own family. And I'm never going to Israel. Most American jews are against the authoritarian government of Israel, what they did abd keep doing do Palestines is horrible.

stop israel apartheid

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My friend's parents emigrated from Italy to Brazil. My friend grew up speaking Italian and Portuguese. She moved to the US in her late 20s and raised her kids here. But her kids learned Italian and Portuguese at home since my friend spoke to her kids only in Italian and her husband to spoke them only in Portuguese. They alternate years spending a month in Italy and then a month in Brazil visiting relatives.

Cultutally now she said she feels mostly American now but has no actual preferred / dominant language of the 3. She also get by well in Spanish in French, but they are not as strong.