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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are bilingual. We do try to talk our language at home but we use English also and have tried to converse mostly in our language. They reply in English. Our kids attend our language class but we have complaints that they never pay attention in class and just do whatever they want to do since they do not understand what is being spoken. They are not even trying. Spouse does not care if they learn the language or not. It took me almost 2 hours to teach 4 easy rhyming sentences that were already taught in class ( it was basically the same sentence with only the first word changing each time) and yet they don't remember. I don't think I can continue like that. I am losing my sanity whenever I try to teach our language. Nothing seems to work and I am just ready to give up. How do you handle this? Do you hire a tutor for the language to do one on one. Any experiences with this? Kids are in ES. [/quote]

My friend is from Colombia and her DH is American and doesn't speak Spanish.  She's successfully taught her kids (who are now teens) and it was really cool to watch.  She speaks to everyone in English but if she turns to speak to her kids, it's ALWAYS in Spanish.  Never speaks to them in English, even if at the table with her DH.

I haven't paid attention in a few years because I'm so used to it, but they used to reply in English.  I think they now reply in Spanish.  But she didn't pressure them to reply in Spanish.

They are fluent now.

I think just relax and do it that way.  At some point, when the language courses in school kick in, they realize they have a leg up and they also have incentive to learn, so they get on board.[/quote]

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