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So this year, many of the immigrants showing up at the
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border are families and speaking of our families,
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I mean, raising kids is hard enough.
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Brother. What do you think?
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I mean, he's gonna be a future dad.
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We got a future dad right here.
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She's coming in March.
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So looking forward to it.
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speaking of we're talking about bilingual.
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Yes. I'm hoping again,
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it sounds easy like a dream.
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My baby will be trilingual because my wife's Filipina but she doesn't
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speak the language. But my swear that will probably babysit is
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My parents speak Spanish and as do I and English.
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So again, it sounds pretty.
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It sounds like it's,
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yeah, we're gonna do it.
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You know, we always have the,
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the No sabo and the C Sao kids.
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So we, they get a bad rap.
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It's hard to, to raise bilingual kids.
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Thankfully, we have Jessica and Miguel,
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two new parents joining us.
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Hello guys. Hi guys and we have bilingual expert,
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Marite Vela, author of four award winning parenting books,
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including raising bilingual Children to tell us about Las Realidad to raising
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kids. Yeah. Hi guys.
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Buenos Dias. Good morning.
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I don't know if you ever heard,
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but I am expecting a little baby girl and I'm like,
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she's gonna be trilingual.
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Sounds good. You're sweating brothers.
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This is fine. But let's start off with Jessica Miguel.
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How's it been going with the two babies?
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Yes. We have a two year old and then this little
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guy is two months old.
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My husband is from Colombia and I'm a no Savo kid who
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learns at 30. It's also never over.
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My family is from Southern Arizona,
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like Nogales area. And I met Miguel and demanded he teach
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me Spanish. So I like that.
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We're raising our two year old or,
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well, both of our kids,
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this one just can't talk yet bilingual.
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it's crazy. We have friends who also are trying to raise
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bilingual kids and the default becomes English a lot of the time
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And I'm constantly saying Miguel,
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I like, like always,
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like we need to speak Spanish to our,
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our kids primarily because what they get in the world is English
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And then we enrolled our two year olds in a
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bilingual preschool and there was a moment where we weren't sure about
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the teacher and we went back and forth and I had to
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if, if she's not in a bilingual school now,
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I'm afraid she won't learn.
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And then even as much as we talk to her at home
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it's more than just speaking at home.
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It's reading, it's writing,
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it's being really literate and able to work and have a whole
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identity around speaking Spanish that I think he maybe takes for granted
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because he grew up in Colombia.
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And it's also like a necessity for my kids because my
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parents, like no one in my family speaks English.
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So I want my kids to have relationship with them.
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That's why it's so important for us to OK.
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Isa Pines Espanol Enzo to dam.
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it's just like, yeah,
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reminding yourself every day how to help them and,
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and it's been, it's been a whole journey these two years
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for sure. Like like we'll,
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we'll talk about it for sure.
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it's, it's, it's amazing how isa our two year old
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can do both languages and it's just like for her,
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it's just one thing,
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it's not English or Spanish.
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And so she's like counting 1 to 10 in English and Uno
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alias in Espanol because like she can go,
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you know, from one to another and two,
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she's now starting to realize that some people speak Spanish and some
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people speak English really fun to see her.
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Like come to me and she'll be like wash hands,
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wash hands and then Ala and say Manos Manos Romanos,
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she could turn that switch on,
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right? That, that she's as fluent like that Marite.
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We actually wanted to you know,
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get your input on this.
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Does this sound like something you know,
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familiar or that you've heard these stories too?
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with all your expertise?
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And I, I'm very happy that you have both decided to
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do this. That's the first,
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the first step. It's to decide that you are going to
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raise bilingual Children. Once you have that I suggest in your
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case. Well, I tell all the parents to do this
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sit down and kind of map out a family language plan
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it seems like you're already doing it.
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you include the method you're going to use,
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it sounds like it's one parent,
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one language, there's like three main methods,
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one parent, one language,
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minority language at home,
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which is when both parents speak the,
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let's say Spanish in this case at home.
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And then there's another method that is pretty popular is called time
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and place. And that method is used a lot by parents
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that are raising Children with three languages.
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So you pick two times a week just to start with the
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third language or with the majority language.
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I'm sorry, with the minority language.
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And you pick and everything that happens in those days is in
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Spanish, for example,
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like the reading and the you're talking to the kids,
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you know about a recipe and Alita,
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they talk to Alita or Alito on,
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you know, on virtually or facetime,
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everything revolves around the language.
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Everybody has a different family,
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different circumstances, different routines.
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So your plan is your plan.
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This is what happens here.
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This is what works for us.
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And you know, those get your family involved maybe once or
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twice a week, they can talk to her on the phone
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and you know, so she can continue adding words to her
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word bank in her little brain.
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But you reminded me that my son was three and he would
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talk to me in Spanish and turn around and talk to his
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dad in English. I mean,
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that is, and I learned English when I was in kindergarten
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all the way up to 12th grade.
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So when I saw my three year old doing this,
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I was like, oh my God,
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this is amazing Rosen and it sounds like you're doing what you're
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supposed to do. I'm here to support you 100% and I
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love it. There's a lot of information and education out there
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The fact that you learn at 30 that means that we
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can all learn a new language at any age.
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And also remember this is your attitude,
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the attitude you have towards raising a bilingual child is the attitude
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that she's going to take.
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So we are the best examples for them.
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you're doing a great job.
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Exactly, Marri, you actually want to get your social.
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So people can know where to find you and learn more and
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again, get more knowledge.
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You can find me on Instagram and Latin Boomer mom,
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Latin Boomer mom. I love that.
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I'll remember that. Thank you so much Miguel and Jessica and
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guys. Thank you all to the babies and you know
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thank you. I'll follow me,
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I'll follow you and we'll just keep on the d hey,
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teach her this maybe or do this,
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I'm open, I'm here for you,
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man. Gracias. Thank you guys.
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