Language attitudes are ideas, beliefs, and judgments that speakers have about their own or others' language use. Language attitudes are very important in relation to endangered languages, since pride in a language can motivate speakers to speak the language more, and shame can motivate speakers to speak the language less.
Language attitudes about Seattle Ladino are extremely complex. Many speakers feel deep pride in their Sephardic heritage and strong nostalgia for the Ladino that their parents spoke, while also feeling embarrassed for not speaking Ladino as proficiently as their parents did. None of my speakers spoke to their children only in Ladino, and many suggested that it was important to them that their children learn English.
In 2014, as part of my master's research, I conducted a survey with some speakers of Seattle Ladino to better understand their attitudes about the language. Here you can find anonymized PDFs of 10 speakers' surveys.