I have just discovered your website, blog, and video lessons on YouTube–what an inspiration you are! I am an American teaching French to my nephew, my son, and other young children via private tutoring. Like you, I make up songs in the target language to go along with familiar melodies and explore ways to make learning French fun and painless. Your creative and detailed lesson plans with activities are very helpful–they provide lots of repeated exposure to the target language and appeal to different learning styles.

I’d be curious to hear about how you decide what proportion of English and Spanish to use in your materials–perhaps in a future blog post you could address immersion vs. translation? I’ve had more luck doing full immersion (both with kids and with college students).

Please drop by and visit my blog, “Bringing up Baby Bilingual,” at babybilingual.blogspot.com. Would you possibly consider letting me profile your bilingual family? It involves simply typing answers to questions about how and why your family uses English and Spanish. (You can click on previous profiles in the sidebar to see what other families have said.)

And other fans and readers of Boca Beth, that invitation goes to y’all too! Email me at babybilingual (at) gmail (dot) com if you’re interested in participating in a profile that I would publish on my blog.

Muchas gracias,
Sarah