u/thebingeeater

How important is accent in minority language?

So my husband and I live in an English speaking country. I am a native spanish speaker and he is fluent in it too, so we decided to speak spanish to our children. No one around us speaks Spanish besides 2 people which we see occasionally. It's been challenging not to switch to English in social situations, but we have successfully taught them to understand spanish (not speaking completely yet though). We do all the things recommended, songs, books and screen time in Spanish and we also have contact with my spanish speaking family via videocalls.

Somehow my husband is concerned his accent when he speaks spanish might confuse the kids, is this true or possible? Since the parents are the only Spanish speakers they know, we want to know how much it affects their language development when one parent is not a native speaker but still is really fluent. The kids understand him when he speaks so I am not concerned about them not understanding the language. It's mostly and accent concern. Any experiences or info on this?

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u/thebingeeater — 4 days ago
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Interesting abnormalities

Went to a nature history museum in Guatemala that had some strange and interesting fetal human and animal abnormalities in taxidermy, not much info about them. The animals were the most interesting and disturbing.

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