Table of Contents
- The Journey to Bilingualism
- What This Book Is About … and Other Thoughts
- The Bilingual Home
- A Few Things about Spanish
- A Phrase Book for Talking to Kids
- How to Use This Phrase Book
- Getting Up, Getting Going
- Good Morning!
- The Weather
- Getting Dressed
- Accessories, Hair, and Makeup
- Moving About
- In the Bathroom
- Going to the Bathroom
- Brushing Teeth
- Bath and Body
- Feelings
- Where Does It Hurt?
- Emotions
- Family and Friends
- Family
- Describing People
- Visits and Sleepovers
- Our Animal Friends
- Behaving and Manners
- Getting Along
- Helping Out
- Talking on the Telephone
- Play, Preschool, and School
- Just Playing
- Drawing, Coloring, Cutting, and Pasting
- School and Extracurriculars
- Television, Movies, and Music
- Computers and the Internet
- Family Excursions
- Getting out the Door
- Car, Bus, Train, Plane
- Holidays
- In the Kitchen
- Bedtime
- Especially for Baby
- A Quick Course in Spanish Pronunciation
- Grammar Enough to Get You Started
- Numbers and Counting
- Nouns
- Adjectives
- Colors
- Possessives
- Demonstratives
- Comparatives and Superlatives
- Personal Pronouns (and the Personal a)
- Regular Verbs
- Irregular Verbs
- Compound Tenses
- Continuous Forms
- To Be or Not to Be (ser, estar)
- To Be or Not to Be (tener, hay)
- Commands
- Pronomial Verbs
- Forming Negatives
- Asking Questions
- Por and Para
- Time
- Spanish Language Resources
- Kid Names in Spanish
- Index / Glossary
Promotional Information
This book gives English-speaking parents the tools to create a
bilingual home and help their children learn Spanish in their
earliest years, when children are most receptive to learning
languages.
About the Author
Stephen Marks is Professor of Law at Boston University. He and
his wife, Mary, have raised their three children, Olivia, Claire,
and Saraí, to speak both English and Spanish. He and his family
have traveled extensively and lived in Latin America and Spain.
An advocate for bilingual-bicultural education with a
professional career in languages spanning twenty-five years,
Jeffrey Marks is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Ohio University.
He has long been interested in language acquisition and has taught
children and young adults both in the United States and abroad. His
children speak English, Spanish, and French.
