Spelling in Spanish
Feb.02, 2009 in
Spanish
This incident happened about 2 months ago. I and a colleague arrived at the airport in Atlanta. He was a Mexican-immigrant from Toronto, and it was my first time working with him.
We hopped into our rental car. After spending about 5 minutes or so figuring how to start the car using the state-of-art ‘keyless’ key, we entered the destination address into the GPS. I started spelling the street name : “R … A …”. To my surprise, he started typing “A … E …’!
So I tried again: “R … A …”. Then he repeated: “A … E …”.
We had been communicating in English all the time, but somehow when I spelt, his mind switched to Spanish.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Hehe, I can imagine. In English, it just sounds a lot like “A” and “E”
. This is what happenes if people don’t learn every aspect of the language (people often forget numbers and how to spell words when learning a language).
February 8th, 2009 at 1:34 am
Edwin, thanks for your comment! I agree with you that a lot of things in these books are common sense, but I think they also contain a lot of tips for parents who are trying to raise their children bilingual – especially those that are monolingual themselves.
How many languages do you speak?
February 8th, 2009 at 1:58 am
Hi Roxana,
I have added a comment on your blog. I hope to share with you more on the topic of raising multilingual kids.
I only speak 3 languages, but I am working on another 2 right now.
August 15th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
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