When the little guy presented me with a paper flower he made at daycare for Mother's Day, he ran to get it sing-songing "flores! flores!" This morning his teacher told Brandon that the other day when the kids were supposed to sit down, our nino told another little boy, "Sientate, Lino."
I'm not sharing this to brag, or to act like my kid's some genius or something. We live in Miami, after all, where even most stupid people are spectacularly bilingual (and trust me, there are plenty of stupid people in Miami).
I'm sharing this because it's terrifying and I want it on record in case something happens.
I am SO NOT bilingual (no comments on where this places me on the stupidity continuum, por favor) and at this rate, Anthony will probably end up conversant in two languages, one of which I completely don't understand.
Can you even IMAGINE how much talking behind my back and evil scheming that is going to allow him and his little friends to do?
Look at him plotting my demise. Ay, Dios Mio!
3 comments:
Yet another reason to get the heck out of Miami. ASAP.
Muy bueno, Antonio! Te quiero! (Grandma is trying to keep up...)
Well, he needs a well rounded education. He would have to learn Spanish up here eventually anyway. Easier for the little ones to learn it since it seems it's second nature. I know there are other languages he can learn but seems Spanish is offered pretty much the most and lots of time it's the only one offered. Becoming a real need up here too. Julie took Spanish in high school but hasn't used it enough to keep her up with it. But a couple of the teaching jobs she interviewed for in certain schools, she was turned down since she wasn't fluent in Spanish. Getting to be quite a lot of the jobs are advertised with that requirement. So there you go. Personally I think the people who come here need to learn English first but it doesn't seem to work that way. Julie had 2 Korean students last year who did not speak English. Fun to teach them Math that way. But they are learning English and somehow they got the Math. She was proud. Love you all. Shirley
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