Texan, born and raised in the Philippines!

I realized how many moms are in this forum which makes me an instant minority... maybe more like a NOVELTY.

My little monster Lorenzo was born last December of 2008 and somehow, it was just understood that I would be in-charge of the child's early education. I'm not afraid of technology so I did some research and found baby plus http://www.babyplus.com/ to kickstart Enzo's prenatal education. All I really wished for was a baby that would be easy to take care of (being the lazy person that I am). I didn't want to wake up in the wee hours of the night and I didn't wanna have to deal with a constantly crying baby (shh. that's my confession part). Because if the child is anything like me, I bet he'd be whiny and loud and difficult.

Well, regardless of my motivation, if it's something that promises an alert baby that's easy to communicate with, easy to teach and fun to be around, 35 bucks is not much to pay for! Call it genetics or chance, I'm convinced that this little gadget worked. Enzo came out and cried for 30 seconds and as soon as he heard my voice, he stopped and opened his eyes staring straight at me and was quietly listening.

Anyway, after that success story, my wife decided that since I make really good decisions and good research, I should continue being in-charge of early ed. so here I am.
This is such a great site to read and share. Thank you for putting this together!

I love this topic because I'm multi-lingual myself. I'm one of those people who can recall vividly as early as 1-year old. most of the things I remember most were when I was 4 years old, when we moved from canada to the philippines.

I remember clearly how I switched from english, to tagalog, to visayan and never got confused. I knew exactly when to speak those three different languages. sure sometimes i found myself speaking in tagalog using a visayan accent once in a while but I always knew how it's supposed to sound. No, I'm not one of those "gifted-and-talented" exceptions to the rule. You should meet the kids I grew up with, normal, and multilingual. Remember, everywhere else outside of the almighty USA, most people speak more than ONE language.

Even speaking in English with my friends was in a different accent as speaking english with my teacher. Children who are multi-lingual just know when to switch and it doesn't take much analyzing like adults do! Never let anyone convince you about the "confusion" issue... chances are, that person grew up with only one language and didn't know any better.

My son is 4 months old and when we speak to him, it's all in tagalog. when i speak to my wife, it's in english. when we we use sign language, we do both. when we watch dvd's or read books, we do it in english, french or spanish. my wife is fluent in spanish so, she gets to speak and sing to our son in spanish, i take care of french and italian and boy, he responds really well regardless of the language.

Good Luck and don't worry!