Bilingual Resources by Habbi Habbi

In this post: Looking for entertaining yet thoughtful Spanish media for your kids? Here, we share 3 principles we use when selecting content, along with lists of suggested Spanish kids shows, movies, and cartoons - organized across language ability and streaming platform (e.g. Netflix, Youtube, PBS Kids, Disney Plus, and more). 

Looking for a Spanish-speaking nanny? Have a bilingual nanny but curious to understand how to best support him/her? Here, we discuss a few tips on how to create an enriching language learning environment at home - that doesn't end with just "finding" a bilingual caregiver but "thoughtfully partnering" with him/her.

Starting our bilingual parenting journey, I was less than confident about how successful we would be - even though my partner and I are Spanish-speaking parents. I always considered my Spanish vocabulary conversational at best. What would happen when my bilingual toddler's vocabulary surpassed mine?

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. 

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!