Does Your Child Speak Another Language?

January 8, 2010

Parlez-vous francais? Hablas español? In an age where everything is global and an international phone call is as easy as using Skype, it makes sense that people are paying more attention to their language skills. In many countries, it is normal for children to speak a minimum of two languages. President Obama encourages Spanish as a second language and thinks it might be mandatory to keep up with the rest of the world. There are preschool programs dedicated to Italian, Spanish, French, Mandarin and a host of all other languages.

So tell mommy, does your child speak other languages?
Source: Spazio Italiano

Poll Languages

4 Comments

3 years 13 weeks

I answered yes,and spanish is not the language of the lower class.My son's first language is Spanish and im sure not a gardener or a maid.Knowing English and an additional language can open alot of job opportunities for a person.

3 years 18 weeks

How would learning Spanish be "mandatory to keep up with the rest of the world"?? Spanish is the language of the underclass, the language of gardeners and maids. A child would do much better to learn Mandarin or Russian, or even classical Latin.

starbucks 3 years 18 weeks

I picked yes, although she actually doesn't speak at all yet. Our native is German, but since I'm studying to be a teacher for English I thought it would be nice to give her a head start. I just bought the very hungry caterpillar today. We speak German throughout the day, but bedtime stories are usually in English.