taco de lenguas

Hello everyone. I kind of lost track of this blog during the pandemic. It is now January 2023 and the kids are growing up fast. S is now 10 and in Year 5, and E is 6 in Year 1. So what was the impact of the pandemic on our bilingual household? And how have…

This summer we travelled to Spain for three weeks. We started with a home exchange just north of Valencia, among the orange groves. Then travelled by AVE to Madrid to visit some friends, and onwards to Palencia where I stayed for another week with the kids. S is now 7 and E turned 3 in…

During our recent (Aug 2018) trip to Spain on a home exchange to Huesa, Jaén, we stopped to stock up with provisions at a large supermarket in Granada. I headed straight for the book section looking for sticker activity books for E who is really enjoying them at the moment and manages to finish most…

E has now been at nursery for over 6 months. Surprisingly, her English (majority language) has been slower to develop than I imagined. She likes to tell me, ‘Mamá, los niños en la guardería hablan inglés, pero yo hablo español’. Its back to school now in September and she’ll be going for 3 days a…

Just a funny thing my 2 year old said!

My 6 year old son is now reading books from the ‘serie blanca’ of the Barco de Vapor collection. Serie blanco is the first level, aimed at ‘primeros lectores’. Despite the name, these books are not for children who are just starting to learn to read. Each page has a paragraph of text and the…

I have so many draft posts I’ve not managed to get finished and published so I’m just going to go ahead and get them done! Watch this space.

S has been learning to read and write in Spanish since he started school about a year and a half ago. He has a weekly lesson where we aim to follow the topics covered at