Multilingual Stories by Habbi Habbi

Multilingual stories

Welcome!

Raising a bilingual (or multilingual) child is hard! A favorite part of our Habbi Habbi journey has been meeting and hearing the stories of other parents. Their tips and tricks, motivations, backgrounds... are all so interesting - inspiring and comforting us along our own paths. We've shared them here, in hopes that they can do the same for you! We hope you love. xo, H&AL

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#HabbiHabits (Play Habits)
Learning Chinese
Learning Spanish
Learning Japanese
Non-Native Speakers
Mixed Heritage Families
ABC / CBC / BBC Families
Play-Based Activities

#HabbiHabits: How we use Habbi Habbi in our kitchen

[Guest Contributor: Kate] As non-native speakers, our family is always looking for ways to incorporate Chinese into our daily lives. It isn’t the most natural thing for us, so practice is deliberate, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be fun. One way we’ve been slyly sneaking in Chinese play with our youngest (age 3) is by pairing her Habbi Habbi book, Foodie Friends, with our play kitchen ...

#HabbiHabits: Tips from a speech therapy expert and bilingual mom

We loved this chat with Grace - speech therapy expert and bilingual mom. A 5-minute conversation evolved into a much longer discussion about how she uses Habbi Habbi and how she would advise different age groups and family types to use it (e.g. native and non-native). We left the conversation with new ideas on ways to use our own product and decided to write it up, in case you find it helpful too!