Teaching Spanish to the kids isn't easy for second-generation parents

In this article written by Maya Sugarman, from KQED, she writes about teaching Spanish to a second generation of children. Second generation parents are having trouble teaching their children Spanish. One parent said that she had been speaking and learning in English for thirty years and she is more used to speaking in English even though she learned Spanish first. This parent also said once she went to college in Pepperdine, that she assimilated to American culture and her parents were pleased to this new development. Sugarman also brings up a study that Spanish speaking households in America are shrinking as the time goes by.

This article is interesting to me because I call myself a first generation Latino and a second generation Southeast Asian. My father came to America in the sixties and he picked up English quickly. He did not force of even have to teach my brother or me Tagalog. While my mother came in the eighties and she did not know any English, so she forced us to speak Spanish at home, thus, making my first language Spanish. I feel though that I would teach my children English first then Spanish because if I were to live in American if or when I would have them, I would want them to learn the more dominate language.

http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/11/17/55696/teaching-spanish-to-the-kids-isn-t-easy-for-second/