'Bilingual Living' Articles

You can watch it in a house. You can watch it with a mouse. You can watch them here or there. You can watch them anywhere! Okay, maybe Dr. Seuss wasn’t thinking about Little Pim’s Digital Downloads when he wrote Green Eggs and Ham but I do share something with the whimsical author whose birthday [...]

Language learning doesn’t begin and end for me at the office. I grew up bilingual in French and English and am passionate about passing on le français to my two children- Emmett and Adrian. Here’s a cute video I shot last week of them counting in French while playing in the kitchen one morning…
Seeing them [...]

Last weekend I attended a talk at a local Barnes & Noble by Dr. Ellen Bialystok, who was speaking about the cognitive benefits of children being bilingual. She is a Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at York University in Canada. I have been following her work for a long time and have cited her research [...]

Enjoy this 1 minute clip of Little Pim Hebrew.
Browse the Hebrew series: http://www.littlepim.com/store/hebrew-language-for-kids/

Last week the New York Times reported on the unfortunate rate at which foreign language education programs in schools in the northeast are being cut to help balance budgets. If you’ve been following my blog, you probably share in my belief that speaking a foreign language is no longer an expendable luxury but an [...]

Now you can bring the bilingual fun of Little Pim to the car and your iPod with our new music CDs: Little Pim French Bop and Little Pim Spanish Bop.
Both CDs feature great kids songs, sung by native speakers, and include beautiful lullabies and lively singalongs. Native Spanish and French speakers will recognize some popular [...]

The Little Pim “Our Bilingual Life” Contest
We at Little Pim want to be your multimedia partner in helping your tot pick up a second language, and we’d like to celebrate all you are doing to create a bilingual lifestyle.
Moms & dads, please send us a photo or video that expresses how living a bilingual lifestyle [...]

I just got back from a trip to France with my son Emmett – a special mommy and big boy trip (little Adrian, just 18 months old stayed home with his dad). We had been to France before to see family and friends but this was the first time we went to Paris. To [...]

In preparation for the filming of Little Pim DVDs 4, 5, and 6, we held a casting call yesterday in our Manhattan offices. Our loft was flooded with the most adorable babies, toddlers and preschoolers. Toddlers, crawlers, and walkers mingled and drank juice boxes in our waiting area, turned into play room.
As the kids waited [...]

Brad Pitt recently said in an interview that raising multilingual children and spending so much time in France is making him wish he’d learned a foreign language (Parade, September 9th). While it’s never too for Brad or any adult who wants to pick up another language, experts agree it is much easier to learn [...]