What is the best age to teach my daughter the alphabet in spanish??

Question

She has learned the alphabet in english, and she can spell her name and name all the apl[habet in english she jsut turned 5, she can write her name , but i wanted to teach her in spanish the alphabet pronunciation because spanish is my first language, but I dont want to confuse her , she will be going to kindergarden next aaugust HELP!

Answer 1

Teach her right now. The earlier the better (100% agreed with previous posters on that). If you can speak to her in Spanish or surround her with people who do on a consistent basis, she'll learn it like English if she's young enough.

Children learn foreign languages best before they're 10-12 years old... after that it becomes progressively more difficult (but not impossible of course :)

You might want to check out this page for some quick info:
http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content3/second.language.p.k12.2.html

Answer 2

If she already knows the English alphabet, there's no reason she can't learn the spanish. I'd start teaching her right now.

Answer 3

The earlier the better.

Children's brains are designed to learn languages.

The older they get, the less of a spounge their minds become.

I've been trying to learn spanish for years,

My wife whose first language is spanish, waited two long to teach our children spanish.

The best thing you can do is talk, talk, and talk to your child in both spanish and english.

Let her mind absorb the languages, she will not be confused as she grows up.

In Europe you have children learning 3 to 4 languages as they grow up.

PLease give your child the gift of multi languages.

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Answer 4

right now!!!! if u do things like sing read and label things in Spanish it will help....
my girlfriend is Chinese and her and her little cus's all speak Spanish

i mean i walk in the house and this little boy who is Chinese, first language is Spanish and he's saying to me hey hey hey hey you big big big big ,ball in Spanish and his parent are sweet heart I'm not sure he speaks Spanish
i mean the little kid can speak English but only will talk in Spanish
u don't have to talk to your child much in english because other people will do that for u
english will come very easy

Answer 5

My answer is the sooner the better, but take it slowly. Children learn new things amazingly fast, but as you said yourself, you don´t want to confuce her. You will notice when she is ready for new words and pronunciations. I´m sure you will succeed!