“¡Hola mundo! Soy Aniela” 😀 So if you haven’t heard the news, my little Bilingüita was born 🙂 If you’d been following along with my pregnancy via Instagram or the podcast, you’ll know that we had no idea who to imagine we were expecting, since we didn’t know if the baby was a boy or […]
“Somos Bilingüitos” — we wear it proudly on our shirts, but what exactly is Bilingüitos??? Bilingüitos exists to cultivate and celebrate bilingualism all around us. We are locally run Spanish immersion programs based out of Loudoun County, Virginia. We offer language classes and programs for children of all ages — Mommy & Me, Preschool, Afterschool,
A question we get ALL the time from our local families that come in for a tour of Bilingüitos is this, “Are these programs geared more for English-speaking kids or for Spanish-speaking kids?” What they’re wondering beneath the surface is, “If my child starts to attend a program here, what will be their classmates’ primary
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Setting up your bilingualism plan This post serves as the show notes for the Bilingual Parenting Podcast. This episode is a special one for all of the newly expecting parents! We’re talking about planning for your child’s bilingualism while they’re still in the womb! If this pertains to you, I want to be sure to
It’s high time we share one of our favorite science experiments EVER here on the blog. Now I have to say up front that I do not claim this idea by any means, in fact I can’t even cite for sure where I first saw this idea because so many different blogs feature this experiment.
Now that it’s the first week of fall (and today’s the first day that it actually FEELS like fall) I thought I’d share one of our favorite sensory bins we do each year — the farm & feed fall sensory bin! I’m sure there are many variations you could think of when making this bin,
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All about MLAH This post serves as the show notes for the Bilingual Parenting Podcast; this episode is is the second in a series of Bilingual Parenting Strategy episodes. Here we talking all about MLAH, or the Minority Language at Home bilingual parenting strategy. Wondering if MLAH is the right move for your family’s language
Time for some BIG NEWS! We are over the moon excited to announce that we are officially launching a brand new GrupoPLAY in a brand new location: Katy, TX! That’s right, a Bilingüitos Spanish language playgroup is coming for you, Houston area! We’re thrilled about this because it is the first ever satellite play group
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Bilingual Parenting Strategies This is the first episode of a series of Bilingual Parenting Strategy episodes, dedicated to discussing different family language policies (FLPs) in hopes that families will be able to decide for themselves which strategy works best for their family. We will eventually do a full episode dedicated to family language policy (which
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When I was in my early 20s, I had a friend who was in the same linguistics program as me and was also a self-proclaimed language nerd. When I found out he spoke Korean and Russian (two languages on my to-learn list), I jumped at the opportunity to have him tutor me in those languages. The way he was able to break down the language and teach it to me in simple, logical, digestible parts blew my mind.
