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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not necessarily.

We hired a nanny who was born in South American but raised here (full citizen) who said she was fully bilingual and would spanish with our kids.

She doesn't.  She defaults to english - which I understand, but is not what we wanted to hire.  If I had to hire again I would hire someone whose default primary language is spanish (which was the case with the nanny who first with our family for three years.)

Both nannies were citizens, paid legally, and paid market rates for our area.  But their approach to speaking Spanish with our kids was vastly different.  [/quote]

We have been in almost exactly in the same situation.  We hired a nanny (full citizen) who was born in the Dominican Republic who promised to speak Spanish with our kids and she just couldn't.  She moved to Ohio when she was a kid and aside from speaking Spanish with her mother she always defaulted to English.  She could help my son with his Spanish homework and sing Spanish lullabies to the baby, but she still could never bring herself to converse with the kids in Spanish.

Our next nanny was from Columbia and moved over here in her 20s.  She is also a full citizen, but English is clearly her second language and she always defaulted to Spanish with the kids, as we had requested.

When I was interviewing the second time around, I recognized that I needed to find someone who defaulted to Spanish because it's easy to say that you can teach a child Spanish because you are fluent, but it clearly won't happen easily if the nanny defaults to English.

We're not all looking to cheat undocumented workers - some of us have just had legitimately bad experiences with previous (documented) nannies.

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