POLL: Different Nationalities?

jssoto82

OK, since I work with couples like everyday I see some really crazy mixes sometimes. For us here in Miami, it is very common to have mixed backgrounds and so on...sooo Do you and your Fi fall under this category? If so, what are your nationalities or backgrounds? YES!! I am Puerto Rican and Kevin is Guyanese. And he was born in Canada! Haha!Were your parents of different nationalities or backgrounds? No. My parents are both puerto rican and his are both Guyanese.Do you plan on teaching your kids both languages if you speak something other than English? I definitely want my kids to be able to speak Spanish. My parents will most likely speak to them in Spanish and the kids can respond in Spanglish. Guyanese speak English- but they do speak "Patwa" which is English with a Caribbean accent. I'm sure my kids will catch on to it. We always joke that our kids are going to be "Picanese". Hahahaha!

babytec

Fi and i are both Haitian...born and raised...we are both fluent in english, french and creole and plan to teach our kids all 3 languages

TtotheG

FI is 110% Italian. His parents are Italian. He's an Italian citizen. Speaks it. Lives it. Is so ridiculously proud of being it. lolI'm Italian too - but only heritage wise. Cool thing, though? My mom's side of the family and FI's dad's side of the family is from the SAME town in Southern Italy :DOur children will know all things Italian, including the language. My FFIL doesn't really speak English well and Italian is spoken nearly 95% of the time in FI's home (about 45% of the time in mine). I love it. We're proud Italians

Pats&Adri

I want to play! lol My background is Venezuelan and DH's background is Jamaican/American with French ancestry. We plan on teaching our kids English & Spanish fluently

jcalixtro

nice idea for a poll!we are an interracial couple like coffee and vanillai am Peruvian American (both parents are Peruvian, i was born here)FI is a white boy, white/Caucasian mom and Colombian dad, but he speaks 0 Spanish and the only thing Hispanic about him is his last name =)I am very fluent in Spanish and FI wants our children to be the same. We plan on teaching our kids both Spanish and English, and hopefully another romance language such as French.

Anagloria83

Do you and your Fi fall under this category? If so, what are your nationalities or backgrounds?  I was born in Nicaragua and Gheorghe was born in Romania.  Even though I grew up here, I still keep my Hispanic/Nicaraguan culture.  He came here when he was a mid-teenager and does the same.Were your parents of different nationalities or backgrounds?  Nope.Do you plan on teaching your kids both languages if you speak something other than English?  Yes!  We are both fluently bilingual, English/Spanish and English/Romanian respectively.  I am also biliterate (reading and writing) and I suppose that he is too.  I want our kids to be trilingual at the least.  I love languages and know some French and Portuguese (I have a BA in Latin American Studies, so I had to learn other romance languages), and can sort of understand Romanian enough to get the gist of the conversation, as well knowing some words and verbs.  Gheorghe does really well understanding and speaking Spanish.  I hope our children can learn many languages!

SarahNE

We're not too crazily mixed. I'm German and speak it fairly well, and he's Irish/German. I've been thinking about going over to Germany to have my kids, so they can have dual citizenship.

tshura

My background Jamaican -Indian, FI - Chilean -Italian (he was born and raised here in Miami) 

allhallowsbride08

I'll play! I was born and raised in Miami.  My parents are from Ecuador.  I have alwaya been terrible with languages.  My parents only spoke to me in Spanish and I still suck at it.  I can speak it (not properly though), but I can't read or write it.  DH was born in Columbia to an Ecuadorian mother and Cuban father.  His dad worked for the US gov so they've lived in several places including 2 Latin American countries and for some reason DH can't get his Spanish together.  His mom doesn't even speak English.  Neither one of us like Ecuadorian food.  He can't cook it and I can't cook at all.  So it will be the grandparents job to try to teach our kids about our cultures. 

jcalixtro

hi jessica! good to see you on here again! my parents (the grandparents) are definitely going to be doing A LOT of the spanish teaching for our kids tooi took a lot of language classes in college (my specialization in grad school was ESOL and Bilingual Education) and it is definitely recommended for children to only hear the language from a close relative that is fully fluent and speaks it 100% of the time.otherwise they become confused (e.g. if I speak it only sometimes and then switch to English to communicate w/FI) and it can hinder their language development process.

allhallowsbride08

judy, have you seen the commercial for Your Baby Can Read?  If they had that in spanish, that would be perfect! LOL

jcalixtro

just saw it. that looks amazing. you and i should patent a spanish version like now.

sugadumplin18

I know it's a little late, but I am Jamaican and FI is American-he's from a small town in Arkansas. I am looking forward to raising our children in a bi-cultural home.

millenia98

Oh yes...I'm from Miami,born and raised (cuban ethnicity)Fiance is American, raised in Jersey (west African ethnicity)

millenia98

Forgot to elaborate. I speak perfect spanish but sometimes I get "stuck" with some little things. Cuban-americans may know what I mean.My kids will hear spanish all the time. It's hard b/c FI and I speak english so I'll need to speak spanish 100% of the time

faeriedust

I'm Dominican and he's Irish (both born and raised in the U.S.) Spanish was my first language, so I absolutely plan on having bilingual babies!

daphness

im Chilean and he is Italian  but doesnt speak it, so it looks like my kids will be bilingual!Plus my mother doesnt speak english and she will be doing lots of babysitting lol

courtneybrooke921

I'm 90 years late...but...I am Jewish...American. (my great-grandmothers & great-grandfathers are from Russia & Romania)FI is adopted! So we don't know. BUT he was raised Jewish so that makes it easier. I speak a bit of hebrew, but have lost a bunch.I'd LOVE to have a bilingual home!!! Hebrew would be amazing...but something more practical (Spanish??) would be great, although we'd all need to learn together!

ups783

Yay! So many Dominican Brides! Cinthia...we're Dominican venue twins! ::high-five:I was born in DR, here since I was 1, but my dad's company is there, so I visit often. DH is Cuban, but it's all the same. Cubans love black beans, Dominicans love red beans, but no matter the color, as long as there's beans and rice, it's a party..lol!

millenia98

omg - what is going on here? Being in So. Fl. and there is not one cuban-american lady with over 40something posts! wow. Just me! :)This is very surprising. I live in NY and never have any here and I just imagined this board would be full of us. Very interesting to know!

mrsmustard12

Yes, I am German/Polish but I speak English/Spanish and my FI is French (w/ dual citizenship!) and speaks fluent French which I am in the process of learning and I know he will teach our children.