Hi everyone! I’m new to posting on the forum but have been reading on here for quite awhile. I have a few questions about multiple languages for my 9 month old daughter.
Do any of you have experience with YBCR in Spanish? My husband is bilingual with English and German (English is his first language) but he also understands spanish pretty well and can also speak enough to get by. I speak both English and Spanish fluently (learned English as a young child/no accent in either language) We live in the US but would like our daughter to be entirely fluent in at least English and Spanish. We would like to introduce additional languages in the future, but these are the most important to us right now. I speak to her mainly in Spanish but he and I communicate in English so she hears English all of the time as well.
We recently started a couple of weeks ago with YBCR in English (DVD split into 2 sessions and occassionally she gets the full DVD 2x/day), Tweedlewink (a few times per week), Signing Time (a few times per week) and short segments of Sparkabilities. I’m wondering if we should be doing the YBCR program in Spanish instead of or maybe in addition to the English one? Or if there’s a better program out there?
I’m afraid that because she hears so much English now since we started these programs (ie. YBCR, Tweedlewink, Sparkabilities, and anytime we are out and about since most people here speak mainly English) that she won’t learn Spanish fluently. We have also started LR Lite in Spanish. We are trying to decide if we should purchase the Spanish curriculum for her as well.
I have been reinforcing the words from YBCR English throughout the day, but now I’m wondering if I should be doing that since I’m trying to speak to her only in Spanish.
I’m also concerned about screen time at her age. Prior to a few weeks ago she didn’t have any screen time other than a quantity app with the Doman style red dots.
Sorry for the long post. I have lots of questions! 