'languages' Articles

Little Pim was just featured by two terrific media outlets this month: New York Metro Parents and Parent Guide.
New York Metro Parents is an award-winning magazine in New York City that parents turn to for guidance on education, health, activities, and parenting tips. They interviewed me in an article entitled Language is a Family Affair.
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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 [...]

Raising a child to be bilingual or raising a bicultural child can be a great joy yet also challenging to families who are just starting out. The two best things you can do to give yourself peace of mind is 1) Know that there are many families who have navigated these waters with beautiful, successful [...]

Unraveling How Children Become Bilingual
Yahoo! picked up a great article by Associated Press medical author Lauran Leergaard on the widely discussed topic of how children learn languages with such ease. Scientists continue to unravel the neurology behind language learning. This research says that the ideal window for one to become fluent in a second language [...]

I am always looking for ways to introduce my children to new
languages, and also to the idea that we live in a world with many
different cultures, traditions, foods and lifestyles. A friend recently shared an idea her mom used to help her brother and her learn about the wide world from their home in Maryland. [...]

We recently recorded songs for our upcoming Little Pim CDs in French and Spanish, which we’ll be releasing this summer. As a filmmaker, I’ve had the chance to go “behind the scenes” on countless films, but I had never been part of a CD production. It was so much fun!
We had kids (including my son [...]

Many parents who research Little Pim soon discover my name is Julia Pimsleur Levine, and want to know if I have a connection to well-known Pimsleur Method. The Pimsleur Method was created by my father, Dr. Paul Pimsleur. The next question is usually whether and how my father’s work influenced Little Pim. I grew up [...]

Last Saturday afternoon, Emmett and I went to see the kids’ band Milkshake perform at the new 92nd Street Y in Tribeca. Milkshake has been a longtime favorite in our household. Their line about “goat stew” in the song “Breakfast Time” makes Emmett collapse in fits of laughter. When I started thinking [...]

I recently spoke to a wonderful group of mothers at a Big City Mom’s lunch on the upper east side in New York. I have been speaking to moms groups in cities across the country, and one of the questions that has come up more than once is whether learning a second language causes speech [...]

I watched the inauguration yesterday and shared the renewed sense of hope so many of us felt, and was also reminded that we have a long way to go to repair our country domestically, and our standing internationally. Barack Obama has already generated a lot of good will abroad and thanks to his election, we [...]