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Great news: Good Day LA on Fox 11 News featured Little Pim! Jillian Reynolds, a host for the show, included Little Pim in her Style File segment entitled “Jill’s Favorite Baby Gifts.” She gushed over Spanish Bop, our Word & Phrase Cards, and of course the DVDs. I’m so happy to help her daughter, Ruby, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Sometimes when I am watching my four-year old and fourteen month-old squabble over cheese puffs or when I’ve been playing “come and get me” complete with crawling under dining room table one too many times, my mind drifts to my alter ego… an accomplished professional woman wheeling and dealing with the big boys in a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]