I started learning English at the early age of three in a British school in Madrid. My mum had taught herself English when she was in her twenties and both my parents agreed on the importance of learning a second language from a young age. This instilled in me a deep love for languages, literature, and the power of words. This love endured through University, as I studied a Bachelor’s degree in Filología Hispánica (Spanish Language and Literature) at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics to the Teaching of Spanish as Foreign Language at the Universidad Nebrija. I am currently a PhD candidate in Linguistics at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour & Development (University of Western Sydney), in collaboration with the Little Multilingual Minds (LMM) program. The LMM program is a heritage and second language extension program for children based in Sydney, NSW. My research topic is child bilingualism, and more specifically those children that speak Spanish as a heritage language in Sydney.