Bilingual Resources by Habbi Habbi

We were inspired to interview Stephanie after watching a video about her journey with her non-Asian (half White, half Black) husband, Kyle (“How my parents nearly disowned me for being with the love of my life.”) While he is now a much-loved member of her family, it didn’t start out that way. We loved listening to her story and how it has impacted how she is raising her son - the role of her heritage, culture, and the Chinese language. 

Chinese family trees can be so complicated. How do you address different family members in Chinese? This free bilingual printable activity helps you sort through the names - in this fun, free Chinese family tree exercise. 45 free, printable cards available - for you to build your own!

It's back to school for our bilingual learners (or start of school for some little ones) - and we have gotten so many questions about how best to support their continued bilingual learning! Here, we speak with bilingual speech therapy expert, mom, and friend - Grace - about your top back to school questions. 

Teaching kids Cantonese is already an achievement - but trying to teach them as a non-native speaker in a mixed-race family is another level. We loved our chat here with Charing - mom of 2 - about how she overcame the mental hurdle, success factors, resources, and how her bilingual journey is going today.

The first steps to bilingual learning are of course audio immersion - listening comprehension and conversant speaking. But how important is bilingual literacy? Until we spoke with bilingual teacher and dad - Yoshito - we would have thought learning to read in another language might be optional ...

Raising a bilingual child? How about a trilingual child in Japan? Here, we spoke with global, multilingual mom - Javi - on her perspectives raising multilingual kids. We loved hearing about how she nurtures her own multilingual family, speaking Spanish, Japanese, and English at home.

Thinking of building a multilingual family? We loved speaking with this mom of 2 - fluent in both Spanish and English, proficient in Japanese and Korean - to hear her thoughts on raising multilingual kids. We love her approach to multilingualism, one that centers around respect for language and culture ... and books!