Heather should start a KZfaq channel, her voice is really soothing and she can explain herself really well

Also, forcing your kids to take a vacation in a country where the only language spoken is the language they are learning! I used to hate speaking Spanish, but my mom sent me to Nicaragua when I was 6 years old to spend the ENTIRE 3 MONTH SUMMER with my grandparents. Omg did that teach me a lesson. I had to survive somehow lol. My Spanish dramatically improved and now I'm so thankful!

Here in sweden its normal to speak 3 languages. I speak swedish, english and spanish and my children will speak those three plus sign language because one of them has a speaking disorder. Language is so important, its our way to comunicate.

I AM SO PROUD OF MY SISTER HEATHER! Thank you guys for the love on this video and for appreciating her amazing tips! And thank you, cuñado, for all your work! You rock!!!

I was raised in a bilingual home, and I wouldn’t want it any other way! I’m so grateful to know 2 languages! I want to learn other languages too. When I have kids, I hope I’m able to succeed in raising them as bilingual or multilingual. Thank you for the helpful tips! :)

POV: you don't have children, you are just watching this quietly

There giving me Dora/ Diego vibes especially with the enthusiasm of every single word there so cute

Im Mexican American, my dad and grandparents are from Mexico but they never taught me spanish. I started learning on my own about 4 years ago and Im making sure my son will be bilingual. Im so lucky to have a Mexican baby sitter who speaks to my son in spanish, hes been with her since he was 4 months old and is now 2 years old and understands so much spanish.

She has a beautiful voice when she sang the nursery rhyme 😍

So good tips... I am Peruvian and my wife chinese we are living in France now so we want to give our daughter our languages thanks for the good advice

Bilingualism is the best. I was born and raised in Puerto Rico, so I basically learned English and Spanish at the same time. Because of this, I was also able to learn French and become somewhat fluent before dropping it entirely lol

I'm from Tijuana Mexico and I was raised like that, my mom used to talk to me in English, most of the times because I asked her to, I wanted to be able to communicate with many people since I was always surrounded by Americans. Eventually I learned the language just fine, I'm glad I had my mom helping me and she gave me a tool I didn't know I was gonna use in the future, now I'm an English teacher :) My favorite story as a kid was "Thumper's little sisters" from bambi :)

I’m only 16 so I’m not really thinking about children but have always wondered how you would teach your kids to be bilingual. I’m learning Spanish at school and would love to be fluent some day. This video was really interesting and I really admire the work you put in to give your children the benefits of being bilingual.

In South Africa no one even thinks about it. Almost everyone speaks at least two languages from a young age.

Omg. This is so helpful. I am Filipino and my wife is Guatemalan. We’re having a first child in April, a little Guatepino!

Spanish is my first language and English is my second language. I was born in the US but after a while of being a student here my Spanish began to wear off and my parents noticed, they did their part to learn English though it wasn’t perfect they tried. My Spanish definitely improved over the years, my parents definitely had the rule of answer with the language you were spoken with. My dad always got on my case about doubting myself, bc Ik how to speak Spanish I just needed to try a little harder. I’m thankful now that I have my bf, he talks to me in Spanish so much and he helps me remember and add to my vocabulary. Having a support system is great, Ik that if we ever had children Ik he’d be a great help for raising bilingual children.

I relate to these kids so much❤ I'm 15 and bilingual and I'm so very proud of my parents for raising me bilingual.

encouraging kids to speak in the 2nd language is very important otherwise they will be able to understand but unable to respond

I was born in the US and my parents are Brazilian. Portuguese was my first language and I learned English in school. I learned to read and write in Portuguese by myself by reading Brazilian comics. It’s so helpful to learn a language by watching movies, shows, listening to music, and reading. I’m now in Spanish 3 in high school, on my way to learning Spanish, a 3rd language. It’s so great to know Portuguese (lots of Latin) because there are similar Latin languages (Spanish, Italian, etc). EDIT (1 year later) So after Spanish 3 I took AP Spanish in 12th grade (I just graduated high school). Highly recommend this course if you can take it at high school or at an online high school! The key to learning a language is definitely speaking with others who speak it and watching shows, etc. Recently I had the opportunity to do an interview on a Latin News Channel (Telemundo) about a petition I organized. I had not attended Spanish class in a while (COVID-19) so it was definitely a good way to practice 😆

THIS VIDEO IS SO ENCOURAGING!! Thank you. 😍

It was so hard for me to communicate and express my feelings growing up.. my mom ONLY speaks Spanish but I live in the USA (CA) in my elementary school we were not allowed to speak Spanish and I never payed attention in my English class so I wasn’t fluent in any language. I was always frustrated because I didn’t know how to explain how I felt or speak as fluent as I wanted. I was embarrassed to speak Spanish to people who’s first language was Spanish and embarrassed to speak English to people who’s first language was English because I knew I wasn’t fluent & I felt like I would be judged for not being fluent. It was tough. I always preferred and felt more comfortable with English. I took it upon myself to get better at BOTH languages I still struggle with Spanish but At my job I get a lot of Spanish speaking customers so that has helped me a lot. And my boyfriends family only speaks English so communicating with them has also helped me.

I'm Venezuelan, but we live in Portugal, so at our home we are always speaking spanish so my kid can speak both languages naturally, and them english too. Thank you for your tips.

Such a wonderful thing to raise children this way. Please come back, Hollies sister. I really enjoy listening to you.

I grew up speaking 3 languages: (french, arabic and english) and i am trying to learn spanish now

I speak Chinese, Japanese, English and a little bit of Spanish and French, still learning lol. I would like to raise my children to speak Chinese and English at least. Thank you so much for your tips.

I really appreciate this video. We hope to raise our child with one parent speaking Spanish, the other French and living in a predominantly English environment. This has been very helpful.

I’m from Sweden and I speak Swedish, English and a little bit of German too. When I get kids in the future I really want to teach them English (before they learn it in school), even though it’s not my first language. I think it’ll help them so much in the future! It’s almost necessary to know English today, it’s all over the world. Thank you for a great and informative video!

I was raised by Chilean parents in Australia, I couldnt be more grateful that my parents only spoke to us in Spanish. I want to raise my children in the same way. I plan to speak to my baby in Spanish. Thanks for this upload, its very helpful.

I was born in a bilingual island called Mallorca, so I speak Spanish and Catalán. My mom is French so she spoke to me in French when I was little and I started to learn English in school when I was 4 and right know I'm studying in the US so I'm multilingual.

I was waiting for this. I'm raising bilingual kids. We live in Mexico and we try to speak English at home and Spanish outside The house. Also my first language is Spanish so I'm doing the same thing but in reverse

Hi Heather~ Your experience is so encouraging. I'm pregnant with two amazing boys kicking my belly right now. I'm from Korea, my mother tongue is Korean. And I speak English and mandarin Chinese with my husband who is Taiwanese. We live in Korea, but I don't want to use a language which my husband can't understand quite well. So I decided to speak English! Still a little worried about it because it's not my first language. If I cannot remember simple words like diapers or socks, it might be terrifying. It's a big challenge for me and my husband. I hope my kids can be a fluent multilingual later on. Thanks for nice video. Seems like I'm not alone!

I’m so grateful for this video, I was giving up with raising my son bilingual due that he doesn’t say any word in English even though he understands it. But this video has encouraged me to keep going on and the tips are really useful. Thank you so much 😊

I love the trick about you switching languages to get them to go back to your "only" mutual language. That's hilarious and so brilliant. I will use that with my niece. 😂😂😂

Music is key! My kids were so reluctant to speaking Spanish even though they understood a vast majority of what I was saying. Speaking it was where they struggled. I was also having issues being consistent because I just wanted them to communicate with me. Listening to only spanish music at home sparked their interest in speaking bc they wanted to know what the words they sung meant. It associated Spanish with happiness and dancing and overall made speaking spanish more fun once it was attached to melody. Everyday they say new phrases and I have been working hard with consistency on my part. Music helps us bridge the gaps. And I'm sure it will work for you too.

Jordan speaks Spanish very well. Don’t be afraid to speak to native speakers. As a learner of the language, I’ve found them to be soo very helpful and amenable to helping us learn. I think you’re both doing a great job! I’m the single other person speaking only Spanish to my grandkids. I love the language and really wish my adult Latin children knew their native language but was frustrated with working all day and coming home trying to teach them Spanish when they were at daycare/school hearing English all day long. I’m trying not to let that happen with my grand babies. Thanks for all the excellent tips!

I'm from Germany and my parents spoke Russian at home. It's so interesting that there's a variety of different methods of raising bilingual children.

I was raised in a multilingual environment. We need to know our mother tongue, our national language and ofc English by the time we go to elementary school. Then a fourth language: state language is introduced. So yeah its pretty common here i guess

I was raised with bilingual parents My mom speaks Spanish and English And my dad speaks Irish and English I'm thankful because I can speak 3 languages

This is the best video I've seen by fay woth AMAZING tips and resources and your voice is so melodic. I'm not a native speaker but I know a good amount of Spanish and want my kids to be bilingual. This is soooo helpful. Thank you SOOOOO much

I speak italian and spanish fluenty and I am so grateful I have been raised bilingual. when I was born my mom still didn't speak italian so well, so she spoke only in spanish to me . (My dad works all day so we were always together ) So i consider spanish my first language even if i have always lived in italy , because when I was little I couldn't speak italian,just spanish . I have learnt italian when I started school and I keep speaking with my mom in spanish in the house and when I have the opportunity to go to mexico. My spanish hasn't changed and my accent is perfect , I feel lucky for having this opportunity .

In morocco it's normal to speak arabic(or amazigh or rifi) and french(plus spanish in the north) and it's common to speak english as well

I live in the US. I speak Spanish and English thanks to my mom who’s from Costa Rica. My partner speaks English but I plan on raising bilingual children 🥰🙏🏾

I was 3 minutes in when I subscribed. I imagine your children have no problem falling asleep, your voice is SO soothing and you're so eloquent. Everything was so well-explained!

I’ve been learning Spanish since kindergarten because my school had a Spanish program where half the day would be in English the other half in Spanish.

Im first generation American from a Salvadorian family. I grew up speaking Spanish and English and I’m currently learning French. I hope to learn more languages and maybe in the future teach my kids the same too

Wow! I'm so happy I came across this video! Thank you! It can be so isolating when so many friends of mine speak both English and Spanish, but aren't teaching their kids to be bilingual. They always ask me how I do it. I'm already doing most of these thing, but am looking forward to incorporating more. It also helps that my husband is on board with me and understands the importance.

this video is so helpful, thank you! I’m peruvian and I have a niece who is turning 2 in February, she lives with me and I speak english to her since day one. Nobody else at home speaks english so I try to speak as much english as I can every day and she has improved so much! it’s amazing to see how she understands almost everything I say and I can’t way for her to start talking to see if she can actually speak both languages. I’m so excited about this journey!

Great video! And it got me reconsider the way I taught my daughter English. My wife and I are native speakers of Mandarin currently living in China, and we also speak (what we consider to be) pretty good English thanks to our studying and working experience in North America. When my daughter was younger, we tried to speak Mandarin and English to her interchangeably. But as soon as she started to speak up, her Mandarin proficiency has skyrocketed, since her grandparents speak Mandarin at home to her all the time when I go to work during the day, and she also attends a Mandarin kindergarten. And it's only natural that as she is turning 5 years old now, she has a growing preference to communicate increasingly complicated ideas in Mandarin, and her English is still very insufficient for the increasingly sophisticated communicational and emotional needs at her current age. This makes it a lot harder for us to adopt the 'minority language at home' or the 'one parent one language' rules than it would have been, had we started at her early age and stuck to it. We might have to accept the fact that we'll need to teach her English in the traditional learning method for typical second - language learners...

Dutch was my native language but I was always obsessed with America, I taught myself how to talk English, watching KZfaq , english movies and more! Now I’m 12 years old and I live in The Netherlands, my whole family talks Dutch but I can still talk English :)

Im watching this 6 months later, please tell me she has her own channel now. I loved it!!!!!! Loved her and your cuñado! They should definitely start a channel.

First off... 👏👏👏👏 you both are doing an amazing job! I was born and raised in the USA and Spanish being my first language. I cant say I'm fluent in either languages and that's with me having a learning disability in reading comprehension. Spanish is definitely a language I plan on teaching my children when I have them as well as American Sign language. Jordan, I get how intimidating it could be to speak another language in front of those who are native speakers but your Spanish is REALLY GOOD! if there is one thing I learned throughout my Communication Sciences and Disorders degree it's that you have to take ownership of the language and don't let others make you doubt in your ability. That is honestly the best example you can set your children especially when you are out in public with them. As a teacher, I lead my example... and you both have been doing a good job at doing so too from the looks of things!

We thought a toddler in our family was speaking gibberish, but it turned out he was repeating Korean words and phrases picked up offline. It was amazing....

Love it, Heather!! Thank you for sharing all your knowledge. Being bilingual has been so special and important to me and it is a gift I want to give my children too.

¡Amo este canal! No sólo porque entretiene, sino porque también educa con excelentes vídeo.

heather you are amazing, so many people told me i could not speak english to my children because it‘s not my native language! you just gave me hope, thank you!!

My husband is from León Guanajuato. He is Deaf..so he uses LSM/Lengua de señas mexicanos for life, but he also knows English and American Sign Language. For me, I am an ASL interpreter and English teacher. For mis cuñad@s y suagra, they are pure Spanish. Our son and daughter are learning thru the OPOL which seems to work. There are time we have to interchange but I’m mostly English, hubby Sign, and in-laws here Spanish!

I've been talking about this with my husband. We're from Quebec so our first language is French, his "father tongue" and my second language is English and we live in Germany 😅 I'm due in October and, if we're allowed to see people then, the baby will hear all 3 languages from the beginning! I absolutely want the family language to be QC French, my husband will speak English with the baby and outside the house our friends and others will speak German. Can't wait to see how it goes! 😊

My native language is spanish and recently i decided to speak to my 2 year old daughter in english to raise her as bilingual. Thanks a lot for this video, it's very motivating and gives me great ideas to keep going.

I raised my two boys bilingually, even though Spanish was also a second language for me that I did not learn until I was 30. We spoke always in Spanish until he was about 6 years old, but he still has excellent receptive skills and OK spoken skills. He is now 35 and expecting his first child; he and his wife came to me and asked me to be the Spanish-speaking abulelita, which I'm thrilled to be able to do.

Beautiful family and advice!!! My goodness I loved that you can see the love and respect these two parents have for each other and their children!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

What a great video!! I love Heather's voice!

Soy Paraguaya, mi país ya es un país bilingüe (hablamos español y guaraní, nuestro idioma indígena) de pequeña viví en Brasil unos años por lo que tuve que aprender también portugués, y desde los 16 trato de aprender inglés, esos idiomas previos me ayudan a comprender que no siempre se puede trasmitir la misma idea perfectamente en otro idioma y también permitió que mi lengua se acostumbre a muchísimos sonidos diferentes que facilitan a que mejore la pronunciación.

Heather you are such a great mother! I plan on teaching my children English and Español too, and this video was super helpful 💕

Couldn't get enough of this video , loved it and the end so cute 😍

I'm from Veracruz, I'm 15 years old, And I don't know why but I know how to talk in English, my parents didn't put me on a Bilingual school, and they doesn't know how to talk in English and I could say that I learned English by myself, I met a lot of americans through all my life, and one of em' told to me that I talk really good even for being Mexican, and until now I'm still doing the same thing, because I like the English. I mean, you could learn a lot of difficult things just if you really want to.

I was raised bilingually myself and I also did linguistic research on child bilingualism. I thought your video was great. Usually you see a lot of people doing similar video topics but it's mostly crap. Your video actually reflected actual linguistic research as far as I know. Well done.

This app is exactly what I’ve been needing! ...because so many everyday phrases aren’t translated directly. Since Spanish is my 3rd language this app has been amazing!!! ♥️ Thank you. 😊

Heather and Holly, thank you so much for this video!!! I was born in Argentina and raised in the States and today I am determined to teach my children both languages (English and Spanish). My son is 3 years old and can transition to the language they are speaking to him with no problem (although he prefers English). We current live in Argentina, he and his sister were born here... Thanks for the tips!!! Heather needs to make a youtube, I'd be her number 1 fan!

I am Scottish :) I speak English and very little Gaelic for now. I am learning now so that when I have my own children I can teach them the language of their motherland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿☺️

I live in Russia, and the Russian is my first language. I teach my one-and-a-half year daughter English from her birth, despite my proficiency in English is not very high (upper-intermediate at best). And I am very excited with this! I definetely see the results of my efforts and this is very motivating and makes me happy! And it allows me to enhance my own skills as well )) Unfortunately my wife does not speak English but her support is important! And thanks God for KZfaq - classic English nursery rhymes help a lot! I am looking for other parents in Novosibirsk who are obsessed with the idea of teaching their kids English, please leave your comments here!

Excellent!! I'm teaching my son English, which is my second language. I really appreciate all the tips and advices from Heather. I am alone in the challenge of creating an environment for my son in English. Here in Chile the only language my son hears at school and outside the house is Spanish. It's hard for me to tell how inspiring and supportive this video has been to me. Thank you so much! I'll try to follow all your advices. Some of the things you advice I already do by instinct, so I'm glad to be on the right path and ready to put into practice things like.... being part of an online community so I don't feel alone anymore in this challenge. I'm so grateful and even emotional with this video!!

Love your explanation, so clear and understandable. I’m Dutch and my wife’s Cuban and we’re using the OPOl method and our 18 month your old barely speaks but she understands both languages. Sometimes it’s hard to keep it up but seeing videos like this really helps! Keep up the good work!

Excellent advice about teaching English to our children. You should have your own you tube channel. Your English is very beautiful and clear.

0:36-0:39 is the CUTEST thing i’ve ever heard.

Hi I am from Brazil and my husband is American .My son is 6 years old and I did not teach him my language" portuguese "as a baby but I want to start now .It is very important to learn your mother language and be able to talk with your grandparents and family . Also , it will be a good benefit for his future .Thank you for your tips ! It was very helpful .

Excellent!!!! My daughter was born in US, she speaks perfect English and Spanish, she’s now learning french and german. She loves it and we love to see her so happy and social.

Thanks for the video! These are great tips. I’m raising my son bilingual and was getting discouraged because my husband isn’t a native speaker or knows much Spanish.

I'm currently 11 weeks pregnant and always wanted to raise my children to be bi or multi lingual. I am equally fluent in English, Polish, and Vietnamese. The pronunciation of which are widely different so I really want to teach them all 3 languages. However, teaching Polish whilst living in Vietnam could be quite distant for them so I'm now considering reducing to 2 languages: vietnamese and english.

Thank you so much for this video! I'm American living in Mississippi. I have a bachelor's degree in Spanish. I developed a love for Spanish language very young and stayed in Madrid, Spain for 10 weeks in 2012 teaching 2 wonderful kids English while I became fluent in Spanish. I had my first child a few months ago and I'm trying to figure out how to teach him both English and Spanish. This video has definitely helped me develop my own plan. Thank you very much!

You are doing your kids such a great favor! Spanish is my first language and I started learning English in kindergarten. We moved to the US when I was 12 and through middle school my English comprehension soared while my Spanish faltered a bit. THANKFULLY my mom is a badass and MADE me take Spanish in high school and I'm SO thankful for that! I am now fluent in both and a pretty kick ass interpreter if I do say so myself. For the last three years I've been teaching myself Portuguese. It's a process lol.

“I KNOW EVERYTHING!” 😂 Yyeeaahhh, that’s how I first felt when I started being able to communicate in a foreign language, too...

Love your singing voice!!! Your tips are really good.

Well done, Heather. You're doing a smashing job at raising bilingual kids, as well as running the channel for Holly; the video is great!

OMG! I am so glad I found you! I was so frustrated I was going to give up on Spanish today. Thank you!

Hermoso video. Y que clarito hablas ojala y asi me hablaran en el trabajo , yo sufro sufro. Gracias Heather y Holly y a toda tu hermosa familia.

This is great! I one day want to raise my children to be bilingual. I’ve been starting early and speaking to my dogs only in Spanish. My first language is English and I’m still learning Spanish, but speaking to my dogs really helps my learning. When I don’t know what to say I figure out how to say it. It’s also cool because he listens to Me and nobody else when they try to tell him to do stuff in English.

What a spectacular gift for a parent to give to their children, communication!

I’m from Louisiana and grew up surrounded by the French language. My grandparents, who’ve now passed on, were a part of the last generation that was born monolingual Francophone in South Louisiana. They later learned English in school and raised my dad as an Anglophone, because they felt it would give him better opportunities, and I guess they thought they had to choose between their first language (French) or the language that was growing steadily in dominance throughout the state (English). My dad, however, learned his parents’ native language from a very young age anyway, because his grandparents spoke nothing but French, so he grew up with French anyway and was always able to communicate effectively with his grandparents, who, in fact, died in the 1980s having never learned English, despite having lived in Louisiana their whole lives (they didn’t need to learn English, because nearly everyone in the community spoke French at the time). So my dad grew up bilingual, but he too raised all of his children in English. I’ve been surrounded by the language my whole life, however, and was interested in learning it from a young age, although I didn’t start actively studying it until high school. I’m now in my 30s, am fairly fluent in French, and have been married for more than 6 years. My wife and I want children, and I definitely want to raise them speaking their heritage language. My wife understands French but would prefer to speak English to the children. She totally supports me speaking French to them though. I know it’ll be difficult, but I’m passionate about the language of my heritage and am determined to pass it on to the next generation. We’d also like to enroll our kids in a French Immersion (or at least bilingual French-English immersion) program/school. We currently live in Florida, but Louisiana has a lot of French immersion schools and good community and cultural support for the language. Language immersion schools are also popping up all over the country, which is great!

Wow I'm so glad you're helping people raising bilingual kids You really are amazing ♥

My kids attend Spanish immersion! I knew it when I was young but you know what they say, if you don't use it lol. Pero yo entiendo mas. So my poor English speaking husband is left out a bit but because I dont speak it I have a hard time getting them to use Spanish at home. So this gave me some encouragement to get back on it. Also the app "Microsoft translate" is amazing. You can speak, write or even take a picture and have it translated appropriately. If you get the paid app you can also use the part to do real time conversation translation.

Honestly they have great pronunciation with both so you guys are doing a great job as parents, and congrats on your beautiful family and kids !

I love what your doing. I was raised in a Spanish speaking home and learned english in school. Im so grateful to know to speak, read and write in two languages. I cant wait to do the same with my own children !

Lo veo dos veces por que si

Another tip is to listen to songs in Spanish. Jose Luis Orozco, and Whistle Fritz Language Immersion program have great music in Spanish.

I Love this. Young kids learning another language is such a great quality.

We need more parents like you guys!!!!! 🙏🏻💕

Dios me encanta tu metodologia, acento y estrategia. OK! I'm Dominican Republic, my native languaje is Spanish and 2nd English i would like to teach my daugther Spanish but i don't know.

This is the video I've been waiting for 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 Thanks Heather! ❤️

Heather is so adorable, I love her way of speaking slow and gentle, i don't know. I love her. I would love my children to speak English, I teach English but it's so hard at home to speak English to them. I'll try harder. Thanks for your recomendations Heather.

Glad I found your sister`s channel. Great job! Really helpful. You and Jordan are great role models.