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Hello, everyone! My little girl's only a year old, but my husband and I are already talking about homeschooling as a possibility for the future. My only problem is that I am reluctant to start teaching my little girl in English, since I am currently speaking only Latvian to her and am her primary Latvian influence. My husband speaks no Latvian and will probably be unavailable to help with homeschooling. 

Basically, I'm hoping to find as many people out there as I can who are doing something like what I'm considering doing… I'm wondering whether it's possible to school in two languages but still hope a child might speak to me mostly in the minority language the rest of the time. I'd love it if anyone chimed in with experiences!

Hi Daina and Maria,

I know it's a very old post but are you still available for discussion on the topic?

Thanks!

Agnes

I'm also intrested in homeschooling in two languages.  My relationship with my son is in Italian, but we live in the US.  He is now 2.5, so for now I'm not too worried about doing learning activities (mostly based on play) only in Italian.  But if we decide to homeschool or just to get him ready for K, I think I should start doing some English curricula next year or so.  Unsure how to go about it.

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I'm absolutely thrilled to see this subforum on bilingual homeschooling. My son and I will be homeschooling next year, and I hope to do it bilingually. I am a native English speaker and although I studied Spanish quite a few years, it has been over ten years since I have spoken, so sadly I need to find a native speaker to help me along in this plan until I gain some skill in speaking Spanish. I have also been collecting various links online where my son can play educational games in spanish, collecting books on cd in Spanish etc. I still speak some Spanish but with non use my vocabulary is nearly non existent and conjugating is terrible, so an immersion experience right now, from me, is out of the question. And, I hear varying schools of thoughts on a non native speaker doing immersion anyhow–is a less than ideal model of speaking (non native accent) worse than no instruction at all? I'm so confused. I want my son to learn Spanish, and I can work with him doing simple worksheets and learning vocabulary or even reading kids books, but is this something to avoid if I am not a native speaker? If anyone knows of resources to help me in this journey, we will be learning at a kindergarten/first grade level (he is on the younger side of the age cuttoff) We unfortunatley had to move away from the most amazing immersion schoool, and there are none here, so finding a native speaker (that won't necessarily have teaching experience) or teaching online or by non native speaker are only options now. Maria, I'd love to know what curriculum you used with your kids, as my boy is in the same age range. It is so hard to find curriculum in Spanish, and when I do find it, for example from the school publishers, it is ridiculously priced. I've found some books on reader books on ebay etc, but a full curriculum that we would use in a public immersion school is unattainable. Thanks a bunch!