Bilingual Kids \\Teach Baby a Foreign Language from 0 - 6 years old

I am sharing my journey with my children from infancy to 6 years old in our pursuit of learning multiple languages. I am an English speaking parent, and I am not fluent in any other language. My children have been learning American Sign Language (ASL), Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, and English (their native language). In this video, I share the resources, tips and methods we have used so fair to achieve our language learning goals.
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Hi, I'm Brittany Kelly. A mother of 4, who seeks balance in supporting my family while remaining true to myself. I believe that all moms are the super mom of their family. On this channel I share my journey through pregnancy/postpartum tips, early child development, parenting, mommy productivity, and family vlogs. Join the community by subscribing and hitting the notification bell to get all the updates and never miss a topic.
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[@Olivia.teacher]

I'm an ESL teacher and teach Koreans English on KZbin but this is something Korean parents really want to do, teach their kids English even though they cant speak it. I'll watch this and learn and tell other Korean parents how to teach their kids English. If I talk about your video I'll link to it in my description. Is that fine with you? I loved that I found your channel!

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

올리비아쌤 - 꼭 필요한 일상 영어 That’s great! Thank you!

[@montessoriandbeyond4779]

My son is 20 months old and learning 5 languages. We’re employing all the suggested tips already so I was pleased to watch a like-minded mom describe her own journey :) I know how hard it is to organize the foreign language environment for your child. ❤❤ beautiful video! Any updates on their language progress?

[@adventureswithjulani]

You are truly MOM GOALS! You inspire me to be a better mom to my 4 month old baby boy. Thank you for sharing this knowledge.

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

You are so kind! I’m glad you found this valuable! I’m looking forward to sharing more this year ❤️

[@neqwise2641]

Same!! Mine is 4 months and this is kind of overwhelming but I’m going to try

[@heyvenus4075]

Ohh you took my worries away that I would not be able to teach my children english from the beginning because I’m not 100% fluent as well. But it can definitely work! Thank you! ✨Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪

[@bananaphone8494]

I loved this video! I’m monolingual too, no babies yet, but so excited to give more to my future kids. What you’re doing is amazing, and your energy is lovely! Subbed!

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Thanks!!!!

[@ilocomocomediaentertainmen7425]

My goal was to teach my child a second language and without me searching for how to, I was surprised this showed up in my page, and I took it as a sign to start now vs at 2 years old. He's turning 1 in a couple of days and you've really enlightened me on how to start. I'm a friend... I've subscribed. Thank you for creating this video, and yes, sign language is good. I've allowed my son too watch teacher Rachel and she does sign language.

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

So glad you found my videos! Starting now is a great idea. They really are sponges at this age.

[@jennebabeeee]

im so proud of you for sending your children to that school, you've opened up so many doors

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Thank you!!!❤️

[@meg8294]

Listening to your children and your dedication to teaching them has inspired me to teach Spanish to my 1 year old😊 I’ve always felt discouraged because I’m not fluent at all myself, but you give me hope! So thank you!

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Aww, that’s wonderful!!! So glad you feel encouraged. It’s a big commitment, but absolutely worth it. You are so welcome❤️

[@carinarios7340]

I wanted to do this and I was told several times I couldn’t do it and I was discouraged. My baby is 1 years old now and I am going to do it! Thank you for the encouragement!!!

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

You’re welcome! Go for it! I plan to do another video updating what we do for a second language at home since things have been on lockdown.

[@TitaAguirreGarcia]

Any updates? Did you do it? How is it going?

[@Harajukubarbie333]

I wish my mom taught me different languages, I had to learn my second language on my own (at age 11 or 12) and I'm in French class now (age 15). I still teach myself other languages I'm studying Chinese now. Chinese is a bit easy to learn since I know most of the characters from Japanese (my second language!)

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Same! I wish I was taught languages to fluency when I was young too! It has been so much harder for me later on in life. But you will get them all regardless!

[@Harajukubarbie333]

@@BrittanyKellyTV Thank you! ❤

[@Lauren-pb2gf]

Your kids are absolutely adorable! You've inspired me to teach Mandarin to this child Im about to have. I took it in highschool, so it should be an interesting journey!! Thank you for your research!

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Thank you! I have another video on the language learning subject coming next week. I can't wait to share more about our journey. I'm so happy you will be teaching your little one Mandarin in the near future. Such a great thing to introduce them to!

[@niti604]

That’ very useful..video is very nice ...in India most of the kids speaks more than 1 language minimum..my 7 years old can speak mother tongue that is Marathi one of the states language, Hindi commonly use in India,and English in school which is quite official language..and now she is started learning Sanskrit which is ancient language..when she will be in 6 th standard she will be learning Spanish because it’s in her syllabus 😊

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

That's so awesome! I wish it was more common here, because it was really challenging at first for me to find ways in which the children could be exposed to speakers of different languages on a regular basis.

[@niti604]

Brittany Kelly love from India

[@jailitarodgers1971]

Girl!! I haven’t even gotten halfway through the video and I’m like so loving this!!!! Thank you!! Ok...back to the vid! 🤓

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Jailita Rodgers I’m so glad it was helpful. I really tried not to leave anything out lol. I will do periodic updates since it really is a marathon. ❤️

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Hey! For some reason I can't see your comment about a video on sign language teaching, but I wanted to let you know that it is definitely on my list to share that information.

[@jailitarodgers1971]

For some reason it keeps disappearing on me. I’ve put it in twice. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Thanks for sign vid info. I was also asking you to talk about being a stay at home mom, taking care of the cleaning, the kids, yourself, all while making sure the house doesn’t blow up! I’m new at the stay at home mom thing and I’m pretty much winging it everyday! You seem to pretty much have it mastered. But, I guess I’m doing something right because my house hasn’t exploded yet! Lol! 😂

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Jailita Rodgers Lol! I can definitely do that.

[@rachelmkindi6944]

hay what is name of App you're kid learning

[@mariegomez6627]

I’m so inspired! Your kids have such great pronunciation 😍 I can’t wait to teach my kids like this!

[@aubs965]

You are such an amazing mother!!! I am in the process of teaching my young kids how to speak spanish and german (and, eventually, swedish too) and i am learning along with them!!

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

❤️ That’s awesome!!!!!

[@Katie-ry4lj]

This video doesn't have the views it deserves. Thanks so much for sharing!! I have an 11 week old and I'm only monolingual but I really want my son to learn a second language. I'm excited to try some of your tips.

[@TitaAguirreGarcia]

I started italian (from 0) to my baby when he was 3 mo old. Now a yr later we are doing so good! Its been so hard and so much work. Its so draining but when he understand my italian commands its so amazing!!!

[@monifasj9043]

im so inspired by you ... im teaching my son Chinese, Spanish and French , I know some chinese but i have no idea about Spanish and French seeing your vid gives me hope !!! thank so much !!

[@monifasj9043]

i love his chinglish it sounds like me when I was learning !!! your kids are amazing!! great job mama

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Thank you! I’m so excited you are on a similar journey with your son! One day I will learn Chinese myself. You have a head start on that lol!

[@blkfaephoenix]

Just discovered your channel and wanted to mention, I LOVE your energy! You are so positive and informative and upbeat without being frantic -- a lot of channels speed up speech or cut out pauses to the point that listening to them can be almost exhausting, but watching you I feel both inspired and calmed at the prospect of teaching my kiddo more languages. Also, please give yourself more credit! American education is just painfully bad at teaching languages so if you don't feel like you are a confident speaker but you do have receptive fluency in Spanish, you are beyond monolingual, even if you don't feel like you can claim to be bilingual. I don't know what the word is for those of us in the in-between space there, but there should be one. And it's amazing what you are doing for your kids. I'm so motivated by watching this. Thank you for sharing!!

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Thank you so much! You’re right! There should be a term to describe all of the non-fluent yet fairly conversational language speakers. So glad you are on this journey with your family too. It’s been challenging but I’m in it for the long term. Can’t wait to share more updates. I feel like everytime I share on this platform I learn so much from the other parents sharing their experiences too. Love it!

[@tekinaadams2959]

Hi Brittany! So glad I found your channel. I love you already!!! So down to earth and positive. Needed the motivation. I have been wanting to teach my 3 year old niece and just needed some sort of guidance. Keep up the great work and keep doing what you are doing. You kids will thrive!!!

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Thank you!!!

[@bilbaoweekends6739]

wow your kids are so clever, you are doing a great job , incredible

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

BILBAO WEEKENDS Thank you so much!!!

[@AlphaLibre9]

I really enjoyed seeing the two of your kids doing their best to converse back and forth to each other. The words are definitely there and I can believe in time they'll be extremely fluent. Your son seems excited to speak and encourages your daughter. I'm curious to see what happens in the future. I'm in the process of teaching my kids ASL with common words. I also bought an arabic dictionary and I have an app that teaches the letters and another that quizzes the user on the words that are being introduced in each category.

[@Red-gy9gx]

Please expand on the Chinese immersion school

[@KamilaSousamusic]

I know these videos are old, but you are helping me so mucho. I just wanted to say thank you. I'm brazilian (I speak portuguese), my husband is argentinian (speaks spanish) and his parents are japanese, and we live in USA now. It's hard to manage equal exposition to all these languages and japanese is harder because I don't speak it and my in laws live in Argentina. However watching your videos gave me a hope. I'll start this week the program to teach my baby read (in english first), and then the other languages. I need to try. Thank you, you're such an inspiration!!! God bless you!!

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Thank you so much for this comment! I plan to keep sharing our journey. It really helps me as well to read these because it is such a long journey and commitment. Actually today I took my daughter to the nail salon and the ladies doing our pedicures spoke Spanish. She spoke to them the entire time in Spanish. I had no clue what they were saying to each other most of the time. I reminded me that I need to work on my own language journey. You are so lucky to have so many languages within the family. Keep going and exposing them to each in some way consistently. It really helps ❤️

[@miareyes1553]

i want to teach my cousin (a 1 yr old) english french and spanish im fluent in all so i want him to be able to understand at least

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

That’s awesome!

[@DN-ps4bn]

Awesome ! I have friends that I practice with to use my Italian and Spanish. I am having a baby girl soon and I can speak Spanish conversationally well. But I want to teach her a lot more. My partner tells me she thinks I should solely stick to Spanish because Italian and Spanish are so similar. You know not to confuse her or anything.

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Nice! If you have a different person speak Italian to your baby they won’t confuse it with the Spanish. They will know it’s two different languages.

[@spanishbythebook]

Hola BK, I love your tips about using books to learn language and all your tips are absolutamente correcto!!!

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

@@spanishbythebook Thank you 🥰

[@diogodieter]

Congratulation for your great, amazing, fantastic job with your kids. I have a 2 years old son who speaks Portuguese and English. I speak just in English with him and his mom and the school speaks in Portuguese. I want to introduce a new language, probability mandarin, but I a little afraid to confusing his head. I loved the idea of teach a sign language too. It's pretty nice see your love when you talking about the process with your kids.

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Thank you! That’s so amazing that your kids speak Portuguese and English, and you are thinking of introducing Mandarin too! I really love to hear what parents are teaching their little ones ❤️

[@diogodieter]

@@BrittanyKellyTV You and your kids show me that's is possible to go beyond my dreams. Thank you for the inspiration

[@lesriley2062]

Thank you so much for sharing. I just enrolled my shorty into Spanish Immersion, he's two. I'm nervous because I am only English speaking. But this was so reassuring and informative. Gracias lol

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

@@lesriley2062 Nice!!! It’s a commitment for sure but it’s worth it.

[@jessayounker1308]

Thank you for sharing! I love your positive attitude, it is very encouraging! I’m starting to teach my 2yr old Spanish but with my limited abilities I didn’t know where to start other than reading books.

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

You’re welcome! It’s a long journey but definitely can be done. You’re doing great by looking into it already!

[@misbahzaidi695]

Hi Kelly. My baby is 11 months old. I am not good at Spanish but I am trying my best to teach her. Basically I am learning Spanish alongwith her so sometimes it gets difficult for me to speak to her fluently and sometimes I really forget the Spanish words and vocabulary. I am from Pakistan and Urdu is our first language so she is actually learning three languages Urdu, English and Spanish. Kindly share some tips to teach her Spanish.

[@greenmountainbrownie6473]

I plan on moving to Uganda and my fiancee is a Ugandan woman. I really love these videos of yours so thank you for making them, I plan to teach my children English (my language and lingua franca of Uganda), Luganda (my fiancees language and that of the largest tribe), Swahili (a lingua franca of Uganda and commonly spoken language in Tanzania and Kenya) and Mandarin Chinese (the Chinese are investing heavily into East Africa and are a growing presence). I want my children to one, appreciate their full heritage and two, to do well in life. Again thank you for these videos and God bless you.

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

This is Awesome! You’re welcome!

[@_claudyG]

I just suscribed your channel because of this video, is amazing what a kid can learn, thanks for remind us that

[@nathanchestand2048]

Man, I have a 22month old and a NB. I'm real interested in trying to teach them Japanese.

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

You absolutely can do it. I still remember the tiny bit of Japanese I learned when I was 8 lol. I think the sooner you introduce it to them the easier it is long term.

[@Gen3ralGrimReaper]

Don’t need people that are saying that your child will have developing issues are white people. Both my daughters speak and understand English and Spanish, and my firstborn is now telling me she wants to learn Japanese because she heard me speaking a little bit of Japanese one time and she never stop asking to learn it, so I’m going to make sure she is trilingual

[@amaam89]

Now that the kids are a few years into the Language can you please do an update?

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Great question! I still have 3 of my 4 kids in a language immersion school. And I also still have 2 of them taking online classes to continue speaking to native speakers. It’s really a long term commitment so that they don’t lose the language skills entirely from lack of use. But it’s really rewarding when I see them having conversations in the foreign language.

[@ilariandre_]

I'm so interested in this topic! I'm 33 and I have a 19 month old daughter. I'm Italian living in Italy. I studied English in high school but I couldn't speak at all.. I thought languages weren't for me.. but I was so in love with this language!!!! At 27 I decided to study it by myself taking few classes here and there.. It took me ages to reach the intermediate level.. I would like to introduce English to my baby.. till now I let her watch cartoons in English since I'm so embarrassed to teach her things with my broken accent.. I found a kindergarten where kids are exposed to English 4 hours per day.. but my concern is that the kids who are attending this school aren't that good in their native language (italian) and they don't speak English either.. (age 3 to 5)... I'm confused... I don't know what to do...

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Hi! Don't worry about the other small children because they are learning too. Most of the children in my children's school didn't know how to speak Mandarin at first but learned through their teachers. And their accents were perfect by the end of the year. Remember that language learning is a long term commitment for children. As long as you keep them in programs to teach English they will learn it much better than we learn languages as adults studying. It's harder for us. Also, English is tough because there are so many rules and rule breaking. To start early with English is definitely a good idea. The cartoons are a great start too. You are doing a great job!

[@ladieessence]

I’m in impressed. Beautiful smart children.

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

ladieessence You are so kind! Thank you!

[@ladieessence]

Brittany Kelly thank you for sharing your life with us. I can only speak English and never thought of teaching my future babies other languages. You are totally preparing your babies for the future. 💛💛💛

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

@@ladieessence Awww, you're welcome!

[@dulala2564]

I have all intentions of taking this example.

[@ngotri1995]

A thank you from Vietnam. really thank you for sharing

[@luciusseneca9162]

That's awesome, thanks for the video and motivation!

[@hannahw.9562]

New subscriber!!!! You are changing the game and I’m proud of you❤️ I’m so glad you decided to start this channel.

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Thank you so much!

[@hannahw.9562]

Brittany Kelly and please expand on the Chinese school, I’m so excited

[@ashketchuumm]

I applaud you momma. I’m a mom of one a 5 year old boy and one on the way. I want to restart my sons French and include the new baby when they get here also trying to incorporate a third. German. Any tips are welcomed. Love your channel.

[@Jbb435]

Loved the way you pronounced azul😍 azuu

[@traceyowenhughes9223]

ABSOLUTELY..KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK MOM.

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Tracey Owen Hughes Thanks!!!!!!

[@maryama8998]

Them talking in Chinese was the cutest 😍

[@yannimom]

Thanks for sharing Brittany. Your babies are adorable and I'm so proud of them. Keep up the good work. I hope my 13 month old will be this fluent by the time she is 4. God Bless you and your beautiful family.

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Thank you so much! I hope the same for her too!

[@nejmurat7730]

My small one is 19 month old , im bosnian but grew up in germany , his father is arab and we will live in kuwait . So he will learn the arabic there . For now im talking only my motherlanguage bosnian as its very important for me , should i wait until i start also talking german to him? Oh thats so complicated im always scared that maybe i do something wrong id i start now early , thx s lot for your videos ❤️😍

[@DN-ps4bn]

Have you ever looked into allowing them to use the app language transfer for their Spanish ?

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

I haven’t, but I will look into this app.

[@sharonjones3749]

Hi mama! Congrats on many levels!!

[@yulibettorresg2865]

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[@daniellepritz422]

This is such a great video! Can you share more about the activities you do at home in a daily basis to teach your kids foreign languages?

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Thanks! Yes, I can make a video specifically showing our activities for promoting language learning. Also, I have another video specifically about Spanish learning where I talk about what we do as well.

[@jeslovesjesus]

Thank you so much for all the info! Where did you get those posters on your wall, I looked for some on amazon but I can’t find them...

[@nurulrubaee7345]

You inspire me to do so much for my child! ❤ My child is currently one. How do you do the scheduling to teach languages? A language per day or multi language in a day but different time? Thank you in advance!

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Awww, great!!! I try to review multiple languages at certain times within the day. However, I think a language per day could work as well. As long as it’s more than 1 day per week with that language.

[@multilingualjamasian]

不用提前说你的孩子还小啊。没关系的。大家已经知道他们的年龄。学习第二个语言需要时间。加油妈妈！ I teach Chinese virtually in an immersion style and I'm not Chinese. As long as the teacher is actually fluent students will learn haha It is great for them to be introduced as young as you feel like, as long as you help them stick to the journey. However some research shows that too many languages at once may not be the best method.

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Of course, you don’t have to be Chinese to teach it lol. For us, as long as the speaker is a native Chinese speaker we will select that teacher, whether it’s for Chinese or Spanish. I know plenty of English speakers who are fluent in English, but they aren’t native speakers. There is a difference. May you give more detail about this research you refer to? How many is “too many” in terms of quantity of languages learned at once? Does it specify age? We have been successful with 3 spoken languages and ASL so far. At this point, I definitely feel comfortable adding another one, but it’s a time commitment for each language. Also, a link would be great! Thanks!

[@kristenkristen82]

Hi Kelly, my husband and I are Vietnamese and living in VN. both of us can speak English fluently. We're raising a bilingual kid. We aren't living close to our Vietnamese parents and only see them a few times a year. And my kids can speak English very well while her Vietnamese is so bad because we mainly speak to her in English. Due to Covid, she doesnt have many chances to interact with many people. So now our problem is she doesnt like Vietnamese people nor peers. The fact that she doesnt speak Vietnamese makes us so challenging to send her to school. she's two years old now. fyi it's not common here to raise bilingual kids and bilingual school is too expensive. Can you please give us advice?

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Hi Kristen, I understand how this can be challenging. You may want one parent to speak to her in Vietnamese only and one parent to speak to English. For clarity, is the school an English or Vietnamese speaking school?

[@kristenkristen82]

@@BrittanyKellyTV my husband is currently talking to her in Vietnamese. But he's always busy working and not very talkative. And schools which are affordable for us are teaching in Vietnamese. I don't know if I should start to use Vietnamese in some social interactions because my kid completely prefer English over Vietnamese. Should I speak Vietnamese in the morning and English in the Evening or what? Thank you so much for taking your time.

[@chanelbag2500]

You are freaking awesome

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Thank you so much! What a sweet comment.

[@sylviakarii9318]

Hey Brittany!am a Kenyan and interested in teaching my kids Spanish,kindly help

[@diamsyal4967]

Hi, I wanted to know if Teaching to read and letter sounds while trying to teach another language isn’t confusing to them ?

[@dewberry150]

It may be helpful to read the Charlotte Mason approach to teaching children foreign language

[@monicawilson8075]

I need to do the babysitter, though I dont need a babysitter haha

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Lol! I understand! I was at home so I’m sure my babysitter was wondering what I was thinking. But someone had to know Spanish and I surely wasn’t fit for the job 🤣

[@theabiahway]

At what age did you start screen time for the reinforcement? My son is being raised trilingual. I speak Italian and his mother Twi. However, Drs say not give the baby screen time.

[@armandomanueldiaz]

What app was used for Spanish teaching?

[@ThingsILovenHateAboutMyCity]

Hey girl . I'm training my 9 month old in Spanish and sign language .what do you think about learning 2 languages at once

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

I think it’s great! When my oldest daughter was the same age she was learning Spanish and sign language. It was great to see her sign the same thing for something whether it was in English or Spanish. I believe I mentioned that in the video. It’s great.

[@KM-rs5dx]

I do speak two languages but want to teach Mandarin to my 15 month old baby....what would be the first steps? If I understood the video correctly the immersion schools come in a little later??!!

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

You can hire a babysitter who speaks in the target language, and play songs/videos in the target language as well. My daughter started listening to songs in Mandarin and watching Chinese Emma videos (here on KZbin) when she was that age. Then at 2 years old we started weekly Mandarin lessons. At 3 years old we sent her to an immersion school for Mandarin.

[@KM-rs5dx]

Thank you! How much screen time does each language gets? Did you play Chinese videos for certain time period and than Spanish? I speak Hindi, so planning on showing her some videos, but it sure if I should just stick to Mandarin for now. If not, how often should we spend on videos for each language?

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

@@KM-rs5dx At that age I only showed videos for about 15 mins a day per language. It was more important to have a real person who speaks directly to them. PandaTree is an online service that has Spanish and Mandarin for children. Also, you can schedule language learning on Verbling. You will need to search for a Verbling teacher who works with very small children and keep each session shorter (no longer than 30 mins). You can do that a few times a week, but daily exposure is better.

[@patricewilliams2998]

You mentioned starting with sign language. How dis you teach sign language? Or maybe you said it and I missed it?

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Yes! I love teaching sign language first because it connects the languages and makes it physically interactive. I discussed how I go about teaching my kids sign language here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fXSseXWpidV8pc0

[@patricewilliams2998]

@@BrittanyKellyTV thank you for replying so quickly. You have won a subscriber!

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

@@patricewilliams2998 Awww, thank you for subscribing! I really try to reply to all the comments that I can because I want to help out my KZbin mom friends 🤗

[@elvis3678]

What app can you use for chinese reading ?

[@raybrown2182]

OMG😍

[@raybrown2182]

I love my kids too

[@sharonjones3749]

What online classes do you recommend?

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

I use Homeschool Spanish Academy for the online Spanish classes. Here is a link to try a free Spanish class to see if it works for you: www.spanish.academy/?oid=1&affid=19&BrittanyKelly For Chinese, we use Lingobus. Here is a link for that as well for a free trial. Online classes are so convenient! m.lingobus.com/?referralCode=2MKEEX&referralType=1&fromreferral_copy

[@ambermierez3602]

Hi I’m a long time sub sense I was pregnant! My baby girl Winnie is 7 months now we are learning signing right now but I’m preparing to being communication and language. Please do a video explaining a little bit more about the Chinese full immersion school as well as explain how you can find one in the US like I live in it and Georgia for example how would you go about doing that? Also have you done a video showing how you schedule and balance everyday life?

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Hi Amber!!!! Great ideas! I can absolutely do those video suggestions. Interestingly, I thought about moving to Georgia last year (I was mainly looking at Alpharetta) and I found a good amount of Chinese programs to explore. I haven’t done the everyday life balancing video yet either. I’ll plan for those to upload next month ❤️.

[@ambermierez3602]

@@BrittanyKellyTV Thanks for responding I look forward to seeing it in the future!💕

[@cristabel62]

Wondering what age you started and whether you think mums should wait until child is about two when they have their language explosion? Really want to teach my eleven month old, but terrified!

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

The earlier you can start exposing them to a 2nd language the better. My daughter started at 7 months old.

[@cristabel62]

@@BrittanyKellyTV thanks for your help! Did you introduce both or one at a time? My son's dad speaks some French and I speak some Spanish so we are both keen on teaching both languages, which may also help us deepen our competency :) New subie :D

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

@@cristabel62 Yes! I can only speak English and I hired a sitter to only speak Spanish to her. My daughter’s first words were actually in Spanish instead of English. Their brains at that age easily can categorize each language. After that we started Chinese. As long as you stay consistent they learn it. Otherwise, they will forget if it isn’t used often.

[@flowmaster6826]

Whens the soonest to start spanish hard

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

You can start when they are babies.

[@chanelbag2500]

Is it to late to learn at 19 months

[@burkhousehold8880]

What is the name of the Spanish app you were using?

[@burkhousehold8880]

rass kids, or is it razz?

[@burkhousehold8880]

Hello, It looks like there are several programs on the a-z website. Which subscription did you get? Raz-kids???

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Yes, I got the Raz kids subscription, and I also have a subscription to the vocabulary.

[@daniquefinigan9844]

Love this

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Thank you!

[@chocolateex1907]

👌

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Chocolate Explosion 🙂

[@xRadon402]

yeah good idea teach your kids a language u cant speak thats smart thanks for the really smart advice internet lady

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

Oh, of course! Some people just believe that children should only speak to their parents for the rest of their lives. Why even think of broadening the amount of people they can communicate with when they can just speak solely to their parents lmao! Right, “real player”

[@hxdcm]

@@BrittanyKellyTV (referencing a sarcastic comment above yours) Some people just are comfortable being "Momma's boys" their whole lives, and unfortunately were not taught to expand their horizons (some people naturally do, but some need positive feedback from their parents and not be disciplined for thinking outside the box). It's interesting how many "momma's boys" are "players" as well, and treat their ladies in non-optimal ways in order to please their overly possessive mommas (as no women could possibly be good enough for their sons, other than the mommas). Obviously, mothers should be respected, but overall I feel bad for these people like above, as they are often manipulated and trained into this mindset without a sense of balance with the world around them. Anyway, thanks again for helping us to get out of our narrow mindsets and plan for the future. I think most children would be very thankful as adults, for the leg-up they are given by a parent who is passionate about their learning 🤗. I definitely wish I had early age language opportunities like the ones you mentioned and will try to implement your ideas should I be blessed with children in the future!

[@BrittanyKellyTV]

@@hxdcm Thanks!!! I will keep going. In fact, I just had my own Spanish lesson yesterday so that I can learn to speak it too. Sometimes helping our children reach for the stars can inspire us to try something new too, I don’t see the point in limiting myself or my children. I appreciate your support so much. 99% of the comments in this community are positive and not random like “real player” lol. 😌