This website's goal is to help parents raise their children bilingually.  We hope that these pages herein will provide encouragement to parents that they can teach their children their home language, thereby offering more alternatives to how they can raise their children linguistically and creatively. Please look around at the references, guidance, advice and frequently asked questions to learn more about raising your child bilingually.   -- Emily Gung 

Laying the Basic Foundations

Want your child's first words to be in your language?  Here is a section that will show you how your child can make you proud!  The secret is immersing your child in the language by talking, talking, talking!  The more consistency that you have in talking in the target language, the more the child will hears it on a daily basis.  Even if you do not have a command of the language or have an accent, you can supplement it later with the sources on this website.  read more

Here's some advice that highlight the special problems that bilingual families face when trying to raise a bilingual family in a monolingual society such as America, especially where one language, like English, dominates and the minority language is dangerously at risk.  This section also provides some tips on how to tackle problems with children who refuse to speak the home language, and how to build their self-esteem and confidence in speaking the minority language.  read more