Introducing Spanish to a three year old?

[sonrisa]

Any tips, tricks, games or other supplements you would use to do this?

It is the summer theme at her preschool so I thought I'd double down on it. We'll be going to bilingual story hour at the library.

[cville]

I signed L up for classes and we have flash cards with super bright pictures. Then we taped the words to some common objects to remind ourselves to use them.

I took 8 years of French so my kid is probably speaking Spanish with a French accent. Plus I can't obviously help teach syntax and so forth (hence the classes), so I do vocabulary.

[CurlyQ284]

I think DSs old daycare had labels in English and Spanish for everything. I put his toys on the Spanish settings whenever I remember. He won't understand but I figure its exposure ::shrug::

[sonrisa]

Jun 5, 2014 21:24:37 GMT -5 Moe said:

Do you speak Spanish? Speak to her?

I do :-) I thought I'd step it up a notch with videos or something too. 

[prettyinpink]

My Spanish teacher in high school did something I thought was cool. Both he and his wife spoke Spanish, but she was a native speaker, he was not. Anyways, he spoke English to there daughter, wife spoke Spanish. Daughter could answer them in either language she wanted. She was fairly fluent by 3rd grade

[Jalapeñomel]

We speak to D in Spanish, my DH almost exclusively. I have no idea how it's gonna turn out,because his accent sucks.

[annyong]

Just keep speaking to her! She'll pick it up so fast!