Spanish for kids

When my daughters were small and we were living in Argentina, Spanish wasn’t something I “taught” them in any formal sense. It was just there — at the breakfast table, in the street, on the television, in the arguments they had with each other and the games they played with the children next door. The learning happened because the language was present. Consistently, unavoidably, naturally present.

I’m not telling you this to suggest you need to move to Mendoza (though I wouldn’t talk you out of it). I’m telling you because the principle — that consistent exposure matters more than formal instruction, especially in the early years — is something any family can apply at home, in North Wales or North London or anywhere else, without speaking fluent Spanish yourself.

Here’s how.