'languages' Articles

We love to hear from Little Pim families and some of our favorite emails are from parents who have thrown their kids Pim-themed birthday parties! Meet Violetta, Xander and Isabella: they all celebrated Little Pim birthday parties this past year, thanks to their parents’ panda-loving creativity.  Do you have birthday photos to share? Send them [...]

I recently received thank you notes from Sarah Wynter (Windfall, 24, Damages) and Brad Paisley (country singer- American Saturday Night, Play), husband of actress Kimberly Williams (Father of the Bride, According to Jim), for Birthday Gift Bags containing Little Pim Deluxe Gift Sets given to their tots through Jewels & Pinstripes. I’m so touched!  Don’t you [...]

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 [...]