About Us

¡Teach your kids Spanish DVD system!

About Lydia Maldonado

As a mother of three fully bilingual children, Lydia understands the advantages her children have had in their careers in engineering, information technology and advertising. However, with the birth of her first grandchild, Lydia realized that her children had no resources for teaching her grand-children Spanish. She began searching libraries, local bookstores, the internet as well as reaching out to her contacts in the education field for quality Spanish education programs geared toward children. The search led her to many programs which “entertain” children or serve as nothing more than digital babysitters.
Lydia continued searching for a program that is not only engaging for a child, easy to use, and most importantly educational. The major programs available for early language development provide a basic solution for English speaking children. However, there is a lack of quality educational programs that will help parents in their efforts to teach children the Spanish language, along with its rich culture.

Utilizing her background in education, (Masters in Education from the University of Puerto Rico) she set out to develop a comprehensive program that will help maintain a key element of her grandchildren’s culture, their language. This program collects over 30 years of insight into young children’s learning behaviors and makes it easy for children to live in and play in the Spanish language. This full immersion concept challenges the minds of young children in a fun, relaxed environment and the results are surprising to parents all around the world. But not to Lydia because she knows the power of the brain given to every child and she has dedicated herself to letting the world know just how capable a child’s brain is.. Now, even though Lydia is not physically near her children she can enjoy watching her children learn Spanis along with children from all around the world enjoy the gift of bilingualism.

About Ricardo Cuevas

Ricardo Cuevas is a father dedicated to his child learning Spanish. Ricardo currently lives in Orlando, FL. He came to the United States as a very young boy and his parents worked to ensure that he fully developed his fluency in Spanish. Now he would like to pass that gift on to his son. He spends his days working in the IT industry and his evenings doing his best to provide his 2 year old son with a good education and that includes teaching his child a foreign language. Because his child was born in the United States, Ricardo knows first-hand the challenges all parents have in teaching their children a non-native language. In the United States specifically, the culture is not as proactive in multi-lingualism as in other countries. This is why Ricardo has teamed up with children’s education expert Lydia Maldonado (and his mother) to engineer tools that real world parents need to start their child on a life-long path to learning and enjoyment. In today’s world, parents must choose wisely as to how they spend the few hours they do have to spend quality time with their children. This is why Kid Start Spanish was designed to be an easy to use tool to help develop Spanish language skills at an early age, when it is easier for children to learn new language.