Yeah MB wanted an illegal. Sadly it happens all the time in the Persian community as well.

The MB wanted an illegal. It is ridiculous to try to make up any other excuses or rationals for her. She wanted to scam an undocumented nanny.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

SPANISH IS A PROPER NOUN. It IS not a verb. Stop murdering the English language. People do not English, French, Spanish or any other language they SPEAK the language.

Furthermore, I agree with OP that they wanted an illegal.

I

ROTFLMAO

Spanish is an adjective, not a noun, and the person clearly just made a typo in omitting the word "speak." Get a grip.

Ha! I'm the poster who (as you correctly figured out) omitted the word "speak". I appreciate your faith in me. It's clear the ranter couldn't get past the first incorrect usage to see the other times I used "spanish" in grammatically correct ways. I do think I have some work to do on figuring out the capitalization of the language (or not) though. I'll get right on that.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

SPANISH IS A PROPER NOUN. It IS not a verb. Stop murdering the English language. People do not English, French, Spanish or any other language they SPEAK the language.

Furthermore, I agree with OP that they wanted an illegal.

I

ROTFLMAO

Spanish is an adjective, not a noun, and the person clearly just made a typo in omitting the word "speak." Get a grip.

You people are jumping to conclusions. We host Au Pairs, and we could host any nationality, all with the same price. We choose Mexicans. We like the Mexican culture and like the opportunity to learn more about our neighboring country. Also, many people don't regard Castillian as the same as Spanish. Your Argentinian Castillian is barely understandable to much of the Spanish speaking world. Your cuisine is more reflective of stereotypically European preferences (nearly interchangeable with German and Italian cuisine) and while that is great, it may be that this family is looking for a different kind of Latin influence on their children.