What language to teach my kids...

[staceyv]

i think it's great that you want to teach your kid a foreign language so early. it's so easy at that age!! at the bottom of my post, i put a link to the site where you can get videos to instruct very young children in a foreign language.
a common stereotype in russia is that americans are the only people who never learn to speak foreign languages, because they think everyone should know english. joke: what do you call someone who speaks two languages? bilingual. what do you call someone who speaks more than two languages? multilingual. what do you call someone who speaks one language? american.
that bothers me!! so anyway, i think you're doing a great job as a parent, and i think a lot of people were right when they suggested spanish, because it is the second most prevalent language in the U.S, and learning it would make it easier to learn portuguese, french, italian- even russian! i took 4 years of spanish in high school, and now that i'm learning russian, it is so much easier for me because i understand things like verb conjugation and gender of nouns...

http://www.russianmeetingplace.com/f...&threadid=1188 (the forum where i discovered these stereotypes about americans)

http://thetoyhunt.com/litpeopvid-bil...OVMTC=standard (videos to teach young children foreign languages.)