Woman Doesn't Want Her Husband To Teach Their Future Baby Spanish Because "He Is An American And Not Even Spanish"
She wants to deny her baby the opportunity to learn an important language that could help her in the future.
A family language debate turned into a full-blown Reddit argument when one woman said she did not want her husband teaching their future baby Spanish. Her reason, that he is American and “not even Spanish,” immediately set off a wave of reactions.
The couple’s disagreement is about more than vocabulary, it touches on identity, parenting, and whether a child should grow up bilingual. Reddit users quickly weighed in on the husband’s background, the baby’s future, and the wife’s attitude toward Spanish itself.
Now the internet is asking whether this is really about language, or something deeper. Read on.
Here's the original Reddit post by u/justonepleasee:
RedditThe wife is claiming that her husband has no reason to teach their baby Spanish because "He's American and not even Spanish"
RedditThis is where the comments started piling up fast.
Here's how the Reddit community reacted to u/justonepleasee's post:
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It's even more motivation to actually learn the language too.
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He lived there long enough to be attached to the country.
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She is simply too lazy to learn.
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You could tell she has a dislike for the language itself.
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She does not want her daughter to have an advantage in life.
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You can tell from that comment that she dislikes Spanish.
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Many languages are spoken in America, not just English.
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Some commenters thought the whole argument was unnecessary.
She created a problem out of nothing.
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It would never get to that point.
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Babies are experts at learning languages; it's very natural for them.
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She is unwilling to learn the language herself, so she made up all these excuses.
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This user gave an example with his bilingual 2-year-old daughter.
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She could easily learn through her husband and future baby.
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This user provided an example that proves why it's always good when your baby is bilingual.
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She's denying that entire side of her husband.
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Learning languages as an adult is definitely much harder.
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Discovering that about your wife is a huge red flag.
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Spanish is one of the most commonly spoken languages in the world.
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Denying your child the opportunity to learn a language that is spoken by more than 450 million people in the world is truly a crime. OP is denying her daughter an advantage that could help her quite a lot throughout life.
It's evident that OP has a personal dislike of the Spanish language, considering how she disregarded the millions of people who speak Spanish in the United States. I hope the husband will teach his daughter Spanish despite OP's disagreement.
Otherwise, it would be a huge loss for all of them, but especially for the daughter.
That last comment summed up the mood pretty well.
Like the AITA fight over an undisclosed exotic pet adoption, this Spanish argument got heated fast.
