Found a daycare for my infant, but they only speak Spanish to the kids

[Anonymous]

Thank you for all of the feedback. All of the providers speak fluent English as well, it's just that Spanish is their native language and I guess it's what they prefer to use during the day.

We live in a suburb of Washington, DC so we thought it would be good to introduce her to another language early, as many of you have indicated (and since neither of us have this skill ourselves), but wanted to be sure we weren't creating an issue with her learning English as well since she'll be at daycare more than with us on weekdays, unfortunately, during waking hours.

[Anonymous]

One of my bilingual McLean friends, says that parents would be shocked if they knew what kind of Spanish their children were learning from these nannies.

I always find this highly amusing. I'm aware of the animosity that some European and South American spanish speakers hold toward Central American spanish speakers. Trust me Americans don't give a rat's ass about the distinctions and don't care if Spaniards think they are superior. From the American point of view spanish is spanish (which highly aggravates Spaniards but again who cares what they think. Not an important group.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

One of my bilingual McLean friends, says that parents would be shocked if they knew what kind of Spanish their children were learning from these nannies.

I always find this highly amusing. I'm aware of the animosity that some European and South American spanish speakers hold toward Central American spanish speakers. Trust me Americans don't give a rat's ass about the distinctions and don't care if Spaniards think they are superior. From the American point of view spanish is spanish (which highly aggravates Spaniards but again who cares what they think. Not an important group.)

This is *not* a question of what Spanish speaking country you come from, but IF your command of Spanish is grammatically correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FYI~

There is no such thing as "proper" Spanish.

This is a huge misconception/myth.

Are you serious? You must speak incorrectly if you believe that.

There is absolutely a proper way to speak in almost every single language. Spanish is no different. I studied spanish through my years of school, and once I became fluent, native speakers, especially with no higher education did not speak the same. I had to ask professors about some of the incorrect grammar & vocabulary they used. There is a reason there is also Spanish education for spanish-speakers. There is a right, professional, and formal way of speaking the language, as well as slangs, dialects, shortcuts, and regional differences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FYI~

There is no such thing as "proper" Spanish.

This is a huge misconception/myth.

Are you serious? You must speak incorrectly if you believe that.

There is absolutely a proper way to speak in almost every single language. Spanish is no different. I studied spanish through my years of school, and once I became fluent, native speakers, especially with no higher education did not speak the same. I had to ask professors about some of the incorrect grammar & vocabulary they used. There is a reason there is also Spanish education for spanish-speakers. There is a right, professional, and formal way of speaking the language, as well as slangs, dialects, shortcuts, and regional differences.

Well said.

[Anonymous]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-benefits-of-bilingualism.html?_r=0

Babies benefit from hearing two languages, even if they never pick up on the "second" language. Their brains are already distinguishing between the two. Great opportunity for your child.

My daughter stayed with her grandparents all day until she entered preschool at 2.5, and only heard Spanish from them. We never heard any difficulty with her English skills with us, or when she got to preschool. She knows who is speaking Spanish and who is speaking English, and how to answer.

[Anonymous]

you need to pay an actual daycare. not 5hr underground illegal shit.

[Anonymous]

OP, this is a wonderful opportunity for your child. Children can become easily fluent in more than one language if they start speaking both by the age of four. Ignore the silly poster who things bilingualism causes speech delays. She has no idea what she's talking about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:17:29, Are you saying that children don't need to have a "mother tongue"? If I was OP, I'd be concerned to. As a bilingual person, I do not think this is a good way to do it. Speech therapy classing are booming these days.

English will be their native tongue because that is what DC will hear and speak at home and while out in their community.

I actually only studied Linguistics in college... but then I became a Speech Pathologist! I can assure you NONE of the children we see are patients because of the way in which they were introduced to a second language. The issues people talk about are short-term, temporary "problems" that resolve themselves in time - the same way every child's own developmental timeline is different, the addition of a language can change them a bit but in no way affects the long-term abilities (by long-term I mean by the time they're starting preschool or kindergarden).

OP, this daycare is perfectly safe for her language (and other intellectual) development.

What do you believe are the factors that contribute to the increasing "speech delays"?

Interesting that there was no response from our speech pathologist.

[Anonymous]

Because your question was too stupid for words, 17:19.

Head back to your sandbox, kidlet.

[Anonymous]

A good friend is a speech pathologist. She says problems occur when caregivers speak in broken language such as they speak Spanish but then speak in broken English. If they speak fluently in both then it normally not cause a speech delay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A good friend is a speech pathologist. She says problems occur when caregivers speak in broken language such as they speak Spanish but then speak in broken English. If they speak fluently in both then it normally not cause a speech delay.

Thank you for your voice of reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A good friend is a speech pathologist. She says problems occur when caregivers speak in broken language such as they speak Spanish but then speak in broken English. If they speak fluently in both then it normally not cause a speech delay.

Thank you for your voice of reason.

Take note, 19:33, kidlet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A good friend is a speech pathologist. She says problems occur when caregivers speak in broken language such as they speak Spanish but then speak in broken English. If they speak fluently in both then it normally not cause a speech delay.


Thank you for your voice of reason.

This is incorrect. Speech delays are not caused by "broken language". Stop posting about things you know nothing about.

[Anonymous]

Yes,but some spanish people doesn't know how to spike Spanish anyway , because their doesn't have education when their come to USA.( the is used to live at the farm) and when we coming here is hard to learn English.
English is easy to Lerner when you already have degree in your country.