I was born in El Salvador and am half Salvadoran, half Nicaraguan. Considering Spanish is the primary language spoken by my family, it was important that my children be able to communicate with them. From day one, my daughters have been raised bilingually and know as much Spanish as they do English.

My fiance, on the otherhand, is half Finnish and part Puerto Rican and Italian. On occassion, his mother will teach the girls Finnish words and, surprisingly, they remember them.

Childrens’ capacity to learn constantly amazes me. They definitely soak up information like a sponge.

My boyfriend and I speak Japanese (not fluently, but we know some words/phrases), so we are trying to teach my almost 2 year old girl too. We will eventually be working on Latvian, German and Gaelic/Irish as well because of our heritage (He’s Irish and German and I’m Irish and Latvian).

We’ve always been interested in learning other languages, and we’d love to have a multilingual family.

I would love to be able to speak another language so I would love for my kids to learn one from an early age.