Lana Privitera is the proud Mom of a fun-loving, bilingual "chatterboy" that likes to spice his speeches in English with long-winded Spanish words. Her goal for 2008 is to pack also some French and Italian in his very expandable 3.5 year old brain. Lana still qualifies as a SAHM but uses her "spare" time working as a watercolor artist and Spanish/art teacher

Nickey started school last month and I went back to College. Major changes in our

lives, obviously. Is our Spanish interaction suffering? Definitely YES. Big time.

After packing 80 pages of General PSY (in English) inside my old brain and writing

an average of 3,000 words in English a week, my Spanish doesn’t come out

spontaneously and I keep forgetting to switch languages when addressing Nickey.

I’ve already noticed a subtle decline in his fluency. He doesn’t speak Spanish to me

now unless I prompt him. His grammar is getting all messed up too.

So I guess I’m going to have to make more of an effort from now on. I don’t want him

to end up losing it all.