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Small, useful guides for bilingual families
Clear ideas you can try today, carefully sourced language notes, and no promise that one routine fits every child or community.
The Flori & Luna learning pathway
One set of words. Many ways to make them stick.
Each book introduces a small world of words and pictures. Games, coloring, music and stories revisit those same ideas through recognition, memory, creativity and conversation.
The book is the foundation. Every activity creates another useful connection to the same words.
Ages 0–3
Discover together
Read, point and nameA picture book introduces a small, friendly world of words.Ages 2–5
Practice through play
Match, remember and retrieveGames revisit the same pictures and words in new ways.Ages 3–6
Connect and create
Color, choose and retellCreative play links words to actions, choices and stories.Ages 5+
Read and lead
Solve, narrate and shareGrowing readers use the words independently and teach them back.
Ages overlap. Children develop at different rates, so follow your child’s pace and interests.
- Interactive family learning · Ages 4+
Family words in 14 languages
Tap relatives, hear every word, and follow the guided family walk in your language.
Explore the family tree → - Parent guide · 6 min
How to read a bilingual picture book together
A low-pressure shared-reading routine built around pointing, pausing, naming, and following your child's interest in either language.
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Bilingualism and speech delay: what parents should know
A calm evidence guide to language mixing, vocabulary across languages, and when to seek individualized professional advice.
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When your child understands more than they say
Low-pressure ways to make room for gestures, sounds, choices, and words—without turning everyday talk into a test.
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Albanian language guide · 7 minGheg and Tosk: an Albanian dialect guide for families
A family-friendly introduction to Albanian's two broad dialect groups, the modern standard, and why the language used at home matters.
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Portuguese language guide · 7 minPortuguese around the world: a guide for families
Portuguese connects communities on four continents, but it does not sound or feel exactly the same everywhere.
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Brazilian and European Portuguese: what families may notice
The same language, with differences in sound, rhythm, vocabulary, and everyday grammar—and plenty of variation within each country too.
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Dutch language guide · 6 minDutch and Flemish: one language, two homes
Why a Dutch book can sound like the Netherlands or like Flanders, what actually differs, and why the version your family speaks is the one worth using.
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Italian language guide · 7 minStandard Italian and Italy’s regional languages
Why a grandparent’s Italian can sound nothing like the book, what a ‘dialect’ really means in Italy, and how to let both live in the same house.
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French language guide · 6 minFrench around the world: which French is in your book?
France, Quebec, Belgium, Switzerland and much of West Africa all use French. What changes between them, what does not, and why your family’s French is fine.
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Korean language guide · 6 minKorean for families: why Hangul is easier than it looks
The Korean alphabet was designed to be learned quickly. What the blocks of letters mean, what changes in a Korean-speaking home abroad, and how to read a bilingual page together.
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Czech language guide · 6 minCzech for families: spelling that behaves, and the sound of ř
Czech is written almost exactly as it is said. What the little marks do, why the stress never moves, and why the Czech in your family may differ from the Czech in the book.
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Arabic language guide · 7 minArabic for families: the language of books and the language of home
Written Arabic and the Arabic your family actually speaks are not the same, and that is normal. What is in a printed book, what a child hears from relatives, and how to use both.
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Vietnamese language guide · 6 minVietnamese for families: tones, marks, and north versus south
Vietnamese uses the Latin alphabet, which makes it look approachable, and tones, which make it sound hard. What the marks mean and why your relatives may not all say a word the same way.
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Spanish language guide · 6 minSpanish for families: Spain, Latin America, and the book in between
Twenty-odd countries share Spanish and one written standard. What changes between them, what stays fixed, and why your family's Spanish is the right one to raise a child in.
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Japanese language guide · 7 minJapanese for families: three scripts and which one a toddler meets first
Japanese is written with hiragana, katakana and kanji at once. What each one does, why children's books look different from adult ones, and what to look for in a bilingual edition.
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German language guide · 6 minGerman for families: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Three countries share written German and sound nothing alike. What the shared spelling covers, where the everyday words split, and why Swiss German is its own thing.
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Swedish language guide · 5 minSwedish for families: the melody and the ending that means the
Swedish sounds sung because it uses pitch, and it hides the word the on the end of the noun. Two things worth knowing before you read a Swedish page aloud.
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Polish language guide · 6 minPolish for families: the stress rule that makes it readable
Polish looks harder than it is. The stress is nearly always in the same place, the spelling is consistent, and the long consonant clusters follow rules you can learn in an evening.
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Norwegian language guide · 6 minNorwegian for families: Bokmål, Nynorsk, and no standard accent
Norway has two official written languages and no official spoken one. What that means for a book, for a dialect-speaking relative, and for a child learning both at once.
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Greek language guide · 6 minGreek for families: an alphabet you half know, with the stress marked for you
Modern Greek prints an accent on every longer word telling you exactly where the stress goes. That one convention makes reading aloud far easier than the unfamiliar letters suggest.
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Danish language guide · 6 minDanish for families: why it is written one way and said another
Danish spelling and Danish speech drift further apart than in its neighbours. What that means for reading aloud, and why the printed word is a genuine help to a child.
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Chinese language guide · 7 minChinese for families: which Chinese, and which characters?
Chinese is not one language, and it is not written one way. What a book labelled Chinese usually contains, and the two questions worth asking before you buy one.
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English language guide · 6 minEnglish for families: which English is in the book?
Our editions use American English, and a first-words book is exactly where that shows. The words that differ, why none of them are wrong, and what to do if your English is the second language at home.
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