so my hubby and i are learning arabic together. it’s tons of fun!!!!

i don’t remember most of the verbs i learned, but i kept the nouns, i think. we’re using the rosetta stone program. we only used it for an hour, though, and i’m surprised with how much i retained! great program!

since my husband is from Jordan, i want to be able to raise the baby with some arabic. but i speak spanish from my puerto rican roots, so i’d also like to bring the baby up with some spanish. and i learned japanese for fun a long time ago, so i’ll also raise the baby with japanese. multilingual child indeed. what i like about the variety of languages, though, is that they all sort of come from scattered parts of the world, meaning that the brain receptors that would generally stop functioning in a unilingual child will remain alive and fluid in my children- making it easier for them to learn almost any language they want without suffering the loss of these receptors which would make it difficult for them to hear certain sounds that don’t exist in english. like the bh sound in hindi… lots of americans can’t hear the diff between a b and bh sound. my babies will!!!