ColombianQT_247 wrote: Miel wrote: ColombianQT_247 wrote: That's how it was. My mom spoke to me in English because she spoke to her better half in English. It was confusing for her to go back and forth in Spanish and in English. Okey but what else did you mom did to encourage you to learn spanish???? You can learn spanish if you want ,. take a three month course in any college,. for you it might be strange because u'd think it'll be easy but noooo,. my cuz took spanish once,. and for her was very difficult,.. even though my aunt and uncle always spoke spanish to them,.
My mother never discouraged me from speaking but I was stubborn and I spoke back to her in English. This was entirely my fault. Thanks for the advice. I'll look into Spanish classes!
ColombianQT_247 wrote: A couple of my friends including myself, don't necessarily speak fluent in their native tongue. Does that make them LESS of what they are? Meaning, I have always felt less of a Colombian because my Spanish sucks big fat kitty balls!!! Where you born in Colombia is my question. I wasn't born here but came here at a young age (9yrs old) but maybe in your case you were younger. Just because your spanish is no the best shouldn't make you feel less Colombian. Be proud you are Colombiana and maybe take some time to learn more of your native tongue. It's not as hard as people think to learn spanish. I personally well not exactly taught but played a huge role in teaching my x-girl (Philipina) how to speak spanish.
It's easy for them to learn, cause their second language is spanish. Plus they have many words that are exactly like ours!!
ColombianQT_247 wrote: That's how it was. My mom spoke to me in English because she spoke to her better half in English. It was confusing for her to go back and forth in Spanish and in English. Okey but what else did you mom did to encourage you to learn spanish???? You can learn spanish if you want ,. take a three month course in any college,. for you it might be strange because u'd think it'll be easy but noooo,. my cuz took spanish once,. and for her was very difficult,.. even though my aunt and uncle always spoke spanish to them,.
My mother never discouraged me from speaking but I was stubborn and I spoke back to her in English. This was entirely my fault.
Thanks for the advice. I'll look into Spanish classes!
Sweetness wrote: I don't really think that it's the parents fault that their kids don't speak Spanish well, because looking at the situation realistically parents aren't around their kids 24/7, unless they are stay at home parents. Kids go to school and all they hear is English, if the parents work, than the kids go to a daycare or babysitter and again all they hear is English, so they get used to it more. Yeah parents can talk only in Spanish to their kids, but again most children these days hear more English then they do their own tongue, whether if it's at school, friends, daycare and so on. I guess all you can do is talk to them in only Spanish, and do like my parents did to me not answer me unless I spoke Spanish to them, which I did, but speaking truthfully I can defend myself better in English just, because I'm more use to it. Plus I came here when I just turned 3, so I got used to hearing more English than Spanish at school, and babysitters when I was little. Probably is not the parents fault,. but it has a lot to do on how parents teach children to love their roots,.. and Spanish is part of the Hispanic root,.. I got ur point that most of the parents do not spend a lot of time with the kids,. but now there are programs in the school that teach Spanish,. and other language,. so as parent you have to give your children other options,. in the long run it will be very benefit for their future,..
I totally agree with you, but I was just saying that it's not the parents fault 100%. Take my sister and brother, when they speak Spanish they sound like gringos lol but this is due to the fact that since they were babies they went to an all English speaking daycare, and than they were off to school. So all they heard all day long was English, and only heard Spanish at the end of the day at home. My mom only speaks to them in Spanish, and I speak to them in both English and Spanish, but yet they still answer in English. Trust me when I say that both my parents have taught them to be proud of being Guatemalan and Salvadorian...well Latino in general, and they are, but they're still more comfortable speaking in English, because that's what they have heard more of throughout their lives. Hopefully they will get better at it as time goes by. We've put them in Spanish classes, but they say that the teachers only teach them the basics things that they already know, but if you or anyone knows of a good school where they will actually learn something new please let me know, because I'll be more than happy to enroll them.
That's how it was. My mom spoke to me in English because she spoke to her better half in English. It was confusing for her to go back and forth in Spanish and in English.
Okey but what else did you mom did to encourage you to learn spanish???? You can learn spanish if you want ,. take a three month course in any college,. for you it might be strange because u'd think it'll be easy but noooo,. my cuz took spanish once,. and for her was very difficult,.. even though my aunt and uncle always spoke spanish to them,.
I am Canadian, born and raised... I have Filipino heritage but i don't speak the language, I barely understand it, I don't really like the food, my parents TRIED to get me to speak it, I refused to speak/learn it as a child...
Like LB said, you are who u are, if u feel less Colombian because of language then change your nickname; otherwise, who cares? you're in Canada... LEARN FRENCH!!!
If u really want to learn the languge (any language) go to that country for a while, immersion is the only way to learn.
NeNa wrote: confundida wrote: THAT UR KEY WORD!! I MEAN THE ONLY REASON WHY I STILL SPEAK SPANISH TO THIS DAY IS BECAUSE MY PARENTS DEMAND IT!!! THEY WILL NOT SPEAK TO ME UNLESS I SPEAK SPANISH!!! @COLOQT ITS NEVER TO LATE TO LEARN!!! I'm glad your parents did.. now we see a lot of latinos parents that they don't talk to their kids in spanish, they rather talk to them in english.. I'm oK with that.. but they should encourage their kids to speak at least a bit of spanish .. SORRY NENA BUT I DONT AGREE WITH U U CANNOT ENCOURAGE A KID UNLESS HE SEES HIS ROLE MODELS DOING THE SAME..... I MEAN WATS THE POINT OF ENCOURAGING MY CHILD TO SPEAK SPANISH IF I TALK TO MY BETTER HALF IN ENGLISH??
That's how it was. My mom spoke to me in English because she spoke to her better half in English. It was confusing for her to go back and forth in Spanish and in English.
I don't really think that it's the parents fault that their kids don't speak Spanish well, because looking at the situation realistically parents aren't around their kids 24/7, unless they are stay at home parents. Kids go to school and all they hear is English, if the parents work, than the kids go to a daycare or babysitter and again all they hear is English, so they get used to it more. Yeah parents can talk only in Spanish to their kids, but again most children these days hear more English then they do their own tongue, whether if it's at school, friends, daycare and so on. I guess all you can do is talk to them in only Spanish, and do like my parents did to me not answer me unless I spoke Spanish to them, which I did, but speaking truthfully I can defend myself better in English just, because I'm more use to it. Plus I came here when I just turned 3, so I got used to hearing more English than Spanish at school, and babysitters when I was little.
Probably is not the parents fault,. but it has a lot to do on how parents teach children to love their roots,.. and Spanish is part of the Hispanic root,.. I got ur point that most of the parents do not spend a lot of time with the kids,. but now there are programs in the school that teach Spanish,. and other language,. so as parent you have to give your children other options,. in the long run it will be very benefit for their future,..
I don't really think that it's the parents fault that their kids don't speak Spanish well, because looking at the situation realistically parents aren't around their kids 24/7, unless they are stay at home parents. Kids go to school and all they hear is English, if the parents work, than the kids go to a daycare or babysitter and again all they hear is English, so they get used to it more. Yeah parents can talk only in Spanish to their kids, but again most children these days hear more English then they do their own tongue, whether if it's at school, friends, daycare and so on. I guess all you can do is talk to them in only Spanish, and do like my parents did to me not answer me unless I spoke Spanish to them, which I did, but speaking truthfully I can defend myself better in English just, because I'm more use to it. Plus I came here when I just turned 3, so I got used to hearing more English than Spanish at school, and babysitters when I was little.
NOBODY IS DENYING IN THAT....BUT THE WAY THAT I SEE IT IS ALSO WE TOOK AN INTEREST IN OUR OWN CULTURE AS WE GREW......
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I don't really think that it's the parents fault that their kids don't speak Spanish well, because looking at the situation realistically parents aren't around their kids 24/7, unless they are stay at home parents. Kids go to school and all they hear is English, if the parents work, than the kids go to a daycare or babysitter and again all they hear is English, so they get used to it more. Yeah parents can talk only in Spanish to their kids, but again most children these days hear more English then they do their own tongue, whether if it's at school, friends, daycare and so on. I guess all you can do is talk to them in only Spanish, and do like my parents did to me not answer me unless I spoke Spanish to them, which I did, but speaking truthfully I can defend myself better in English just, because I'm more use to it. Plus I came here when I just turned 3, so I got used to hearing more English than Spanish at school, and babysitters when I was little.
SORRY NENA BUT I DONT AGREE WITH U U CANNOT ENCOURAGE A KID UNLESS HE SEES HIS ROLE MODELS DOING THE SAME..... I MEAN WATS THE POINT OF ENCOURAGING MY CHILD TO SPEAK SPANISH IF I TALK TO MY BETTER HALF IN ENGLISH??
True.... like I said before-- it all depends on their parents and their behaviour...
confundida wrote: THAT UR KEY WORD!! I MEAN THE ONLY REASON WHY I STILL SPEAK SPANISH TO THIS DAY IS BECAUSE MY PARENTS DEMAND IT!!! THEY WILL NOT SPEAK TO ME UNLESS I SPEAK SPANISH!!! @COLOQT ITS NEVER TO LATE TO LEARN!!! I'm glad your parents did.. now we see a lot of latinos parents that they don't talk to their kids in spanish, they rather talk to them in english.. I'm oK with that.. but they should encourage their kids to speak at least a bit of spanish ..
SORRY NENA BUT I DONT AGREE WITH U U CANNOT ENCOURAGE A KID UNLESS HE SEES HIS ROLE MODELS DOING THE SAME.....
I MEAN WATS THE POINT OF ENCOURAGING MY CHILD TO SPEAK SPANISH IF I TALK TO MY BETTER HALF IN ENGLISH??
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THAT UR KEY WORD!! I MEAN THE ONLY REASON WHY I STILL SPEAK SPANISH TO THIS DAY IS BECAUSE MY PARENTS DEMAND IT!!! THEY WILL NOT SPEAK TO ME UNLESS I SPEAK SPANISH!!! @COLOQT ITS NEVER TO LATE TO LEARN!!!
I'm glad your parents did.. now we see a lot of latinos parents that they don't talk to their kids in spanish, they rather talk to them in english.. I'm oK with that.. but they should encourage their kids to speak at least a bit of spanish ..
confundida wrote: WHY ARE THE PARENTS TO BLAME?? First of all, u are with them 24/7 until u decide to leave.. they should encourage the native tongue in those times.. if your latino/a.. u should be proud and ABLE to speak spanish...
THAT UR KEY WORD!!
I MEAN THE ONLY REASON WHY I STILL SPEAK SPANISH TO THIS DAY IS BECAUSE MY PARENTS DEMAND IT!!!
THEY WILL NOT SPEAK TO ME UNLESS I SPEAK SPANISH!!!
@COLOQT
ITS NEVER TO LATE TO LEARN!!!
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First of all, u are with them 24/7 until u decide to leave.. they should encourage the native tongue in those times.. if your latino/a.. u should be proud and ABLE to speak spanish...
You are what you are and it doesn't make you any less of your Nationality.....but yes it can be embarassing not to speak your own language and I still blame parents for that, not the children.
got to agree with you.. its pretty embarrasing seeing latinos having a hard time speaking their native tongue.. and yeah the parents are to blame!!!
ColombianQT_247 wrote: A couple of my friends including myself, don't necessarily speak fluent in their native tongue. Does that make them LESS of what they are? Meaning, I have always felt less of a Colombian because my Spanish sucks big fat kitty balls!!! First of all.....were you raised by 2 fully Colombian parents who spoke to you and taught you the language on a daily basis? You are what you are and it doesn't make you any less of your Nationality.....but yes it can be embarassing not to speak your own language and I still blame parents for that, not the children.
Both my parents are Colombian but they split up when I was really young so I had my mom talk to me in English and my grandma talk to me in Spanish. Eitherway, I spoke back in English. I understand it (not Dominicans though, talk too fast) but I still feel crummy!!!
A couple of my friends including myself, don't necessarily speak fluent in their native tongue. Does that make them LESS of what they are? Meaning, I have always felt less of a Colombian because my Spanish sucks big fat kitty balls!!!
Where you born in Colombia is my question. I wasn't born here but came here at a young age (9yrs old) but maybe in your case you were younger.
Just because your spanish is no the best shouldn't make you feel less Colombian. Be proud you are Colombiana and maybe take some time to learn more of your native tongue.
It's not as hard as people think to learn spanish. I personally well not exactly taught but played a huge role in teaching my x-girl (Philipina) how to speak spanish.
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A couple of my friends including myself, don't necessarily speak fluent in their native tongue. Does that make them LESS of what they are? Meaning, I have always felt less of a Colombian because my Spanish sucks big fat kitty balls!!!
First of all.....were you raised by 2 fully Colombian parents who spoke to you and taught you the language on a daily basis?
You are what you are and it doesn't make you any less of your Nationality.....but yes it can be embarassing not to speak your own language and I still blame parents for that, not the children.
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Where you born in Colombia is my question. I wasn't born here but came here at a young age (9yrs old) but maybe in your case you were younger. Just because your spanish is no the best shouldn't make you feel less Colombian. Be proud you are Colombiana and maybe take some time to learn more of your native tongue. It's not as hard as people think to learn spanish. I personally well not exactly taught but played a huge role in teaching my x-girl (Philipina) how to speak spanish. 
