Little Pim on The Today Show- Language Learning For Kids
Little Pim was featured on the Today Show on Wednesday, September 29th. The segment – “Kids Getting Ahead With Spanish, Mandarin” – was part of NBC’s Education Nation week of programming. The demand for second language programs for children has been steadily increasing as parents learn about the developmental and employment advantages to growing up [...]
Contest: Win a Copy of Little Pim French: In My Home (DVD 4)
Here’s your chance to win a copy of Little Pim French: In My Home (DVD 4).Little Pim is an award-winning foreign language immersion DVD series for babies, toddlers and preschoolers. Here’s how to enter this contest: Translate one of the French vocabulary words below into English. Leave the word as a comment. une chaise une [...]
Sing Along With Little Pim at Giggle
This week I had a great time meeting moms, babies and caregivers when Little Pim hosted the first of three free foreign language events at Giggle stores in Manhattan. We sang songs in Spanish and French with a live guitarist named Pamela. Clips of Little Pim in various languages were also shown and many parents [...]
Contest: Little Pim + SpanglishBaby = A Trilingual Adventure!
A couple of months ago I had the privilege of meeting some amazing multilingual bloggers at a special lunch I hosted for BlogHer conference attendees. One of those bloggers was Roxana Soto; she runs the website SpanglishBaby with her business partner, Ana Flores. When they suggested that SpanglishBaby and Little Pim partner up to help [...]
English Only vs. Global Citizens… What do you think?
According to a recent Op Ed in the Wall Street Journal, despite the fact that the rest of the world is increasingly bilingual, many Americans not only accept that they only speak English, they defend it (“What if ‘English-Only’ Isn’t Wrong?” August 27, 2010). These English-only Americans believe the rest of the world should, and [...]
Children learning languages abroad
This week, Little Pim met Karen Ong, the founder and CEO of Language International, a place where parents can find and compare language study abroad programs for their children and also for themselves. They offer study abroad programs worldwide for kids as young as 3 years old. Karen says their most popular programs include Spanish [...]
Language Learning From Coast-to-Coast
On August 19th the New York Times ran a front-page story about the growing interest among New York parents raising their kids to be bilingual “Looking for Baby Sitters: Foreign Language a Must.” Here at Little Pim, we know this is more than just a New York, or an East Coast phenomenon. We talk every [...]
Contest! Tori Spelling, Liam and Stella Watch Little Pim!
Here at Little Pim the office has been buzzing quite a bit lately with the release of DVDs 4, 5, and 6 and many other exciting projects in the works, but we received a special treat today when a “thank you” note from Tori Spelling arrived! The mom of two children, Liam and Stella, and [...]
Little Pim & BlogHer 2010!
Last week women bloggers from all over the United States (and beyond) descended on New York City for the annual BlogHer conference, a weekend full of fun, learning, and networking. Being based in New York we decided that this would be the perfect opportunity to meet up with some of the wonderful blogging women we’ve [...]
Contest: "I want to teach my child a second language because…".
Babble.com blogger Elina Furman included Little Pim in a post entitled, “Best Products for Global Citizens“. We couldn’t have said it better ourselves! According to CNN.com, 66% of the world is bilingual. Also, 14% of students consider themselves fluent in two languages. In her post, Elina shared why Little Pim was one of her product [...]
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