Noooo!!!!
suarezn said:
My fifteen year old son does not speak spanish (I know...shame on me. It's very hard, because my wife doesn't speak spanish either and there are very few latinos around here.) I really want him to learn...But I see that's going to be impossible here. I'm thinking of sending him to The DR, next summer and getting him enrolled in some kind of intensive course so that he can at least pick up the basics. I'm thinking of having him stay with my sister in The Capital for the summer. I've looked on the web and see that some of the "bilingual" schools such as ICDA have spanish classes, but they are only a couple of hours a week. Not enough to learn much IMO. Does anyone know of any intensive spanish immersion class for foreigners I could sign him up for? Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
Follow these intructions: 1- rub your 2 index fingers(up and down) together and 2- say: shame, shame shame, lol.
You sound just like one of my bothers. He married a "gringa" and moved to Poughkeepsie, NY where he was the only hispanic around (back in the 70's).
When we came to the US, his kids wanted to see their uncles and spend time with them since we were always playing baseball. But they spoke no spanish whatsoever. And us, fresh out of the DR, did not speak english at all. What happened, they withdrew from our part of the family because of the language barrier. Until..
My other brother told my brother off and told him what he should do since the kids wanted to learn spanish. All of a sudden the kids took spanish classes, were watching spanish tv, were making an efford reading spanish and "demanted" to be spoken in spanish by all their spanish speaking relatives. Within one year, there was nothing funnier than seeing these 3 white "blondies" speaking spanish "matao". So many years later, they speak spanish as well as I.
Try and do the same, suarezn. Even if your wife speaks no spanish, YOU can start. Trust me, one person makes a difference!.