Summer Holiday

October is upon us, summer has come and gone, our trip to America has become a distant memory and I can't believe this is my first blog in two months!

Welcome to my new (and hopefully improved) blog (thank you Emily for the name) where I'm 110% dedicated to blogging about raising my two beautiful girls bilingually, as a non-native speaker of Spanish (almost forgot to mention that).

I had big plans this summer on the language front. They were the following: Emily and Leyla would be immersed in total Spanish due to the fact that not only would I only be speaking Spanish to both girls, we would be in America and be surrounded by a wealth of Spanish.

In addition, my mother, a native speaker of Czech, would only speak Czech to the girls. Consequently, we would return to England with two trilingual daughters.

Of course this didn't happen. Nor did we come close. Obviously 7 weeks of language exposure  was not nearly enough.

However, what did emerge were the following sentences constructed by Emily, in Spanish:

Leyla, ven acá (Leyla come here)

Estamos aquí (we're here)
Estas cansada (you're tired)
Tu eres muy mal (you are very bad/naughty)
Tu es diablo, which later became, tu eres un diablo (you are a devil)
Dale un beso (give her a kiss)
Dame un beso (give me a kiss)

And my proudest moment was when she put together this sentence: tu chupete es muy mal (your pacifier/dumby is very bad).

Granted, Emily's Spanish sentences are not all grammatically correct, (nor courteous) however, she makes me proud!