Ok, here I go. This great journey is about to begin. For some time now I've been feeling guilty about not taking the time all these years to teach my children Spanish.
I was born and raised in Colombia. I came to the United States at the age of 21. I learned English while serving as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Arizona. The cool thing about that was that there were missionaries teaching Spanish speakers but I was serving among the English speakers. The process of learning English was awesome. I loved it and would do it again in a heart bit. Believe or not I was speaking English in about 3 months.
So back to my topic here, now after 20 years of living in the States and 7 children later I have decided that enough is enough and my children will learn Spanish.
I have taught them some Spanish over the years but they are not fluent by any means. It is embarrassing when people ask me why they don't. It is a long story. I think mainly because our children were born so close to one another that the task of raising them became so overwhelming and I didn't want to add the "be fluent in Spanish" element to all the chaos.
Now that my children are older and the chaos is of a different nature, I feel like I am ready to step forward and do my job teaching them my native language, but the question is... Can I teach my children to hablar Español at this point??
I am excited to start this adventure. I pray that all the effort will be worthwhile.
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