Eva Mendes said her daughters are picking up
Spanglish
, a blend of Spanish and English languages.
The actor said the couple wants
Esmeralda
, four, and
Amada
, three, to be well versed in both English and Spanish to honour both her and husband
Ryan Gosling's roots.
However, Mendes said the children tend to merge the two languages.
"Well the Spanish in my home, I'm Cuban and we're trying to teach the kids Spanish, and it's harder than I thought. I speak Spanglish and that's what they're picking up. So it's adorable but it's technically not a language. It's Spanglish. So our little girl will be like, 'Mommy, my boca (mouth) hurts because I think something got stuck in my diente (tooth).' It's so cute but that is not really gonna go great out there," the actor said in an appearance on an American talk show.
Mendes, 45, previously said kids were the furthest thing from her mind till she met Gosling, 38.
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