Bilingual Generation

10/09/2026

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09/25/2026

NYC familias, come hang out with us. 💛☕📚

Our Bilingual Generation Alumni & Friends Committee is bringing families together for a morning of cuentos, cafecito, free books, and conversación about the ancestors and languages we’re passing on to our littles.

¿Y quién puede venir? Anyone raising bilingual littles, hoping to raise bilingual littles, or simply wanting more language and cultura in their family life. You don't have to have it all figured out. Come as you are. 💛

📅 Sunday, October 11 | 10:00–10:50 AM
📍 Anne Loftus Playground, NYC
📚 Free treats + books!

Please share + spread the word con tu comunidad. 💫

¡Acompáñanos! Register today. Space is limited: bit.ly/nycmeetngreet

09/24/2026

Amigues. Arte. Libros. Cultura. 💛

Join us in NYC this October 11 for Día de Mu***os at The Met Cloisters! Co-authors Dr. Veronica Benavides & Andrés Acosta will share a special bilingual reading of their new children’s book, Antonio’s New Tacos / Los nuevos tacos de Antonio. 📚

Then, families will decorate a recetario and write down a family recipe worth remembering, creating a keepsake that celebrates the stories, food, and memories we pass from one generation to the next. ✨

Vengan a celebrar nuestra comunidad, cultura y antepasados. Después de una lectura bilingüe de Los nuevos tacos de Antonio, decoraremos un recetario y escribiremos una receta familiar que queremos recordar y compartir con las próximas generaciones. 💕

📍 The Met Cloisters, The Chapter House
📅 Sunday, October 11
⏰ Bilingual Generation sessions at 11 AM + 12 PM

¡No se lo pierdan! Nos vemos en The Met. ✨

09/22/2026

“There are so many different paths to multilinguslism”

~ Errol de Jesùs

In one of our early episodes of Talking to Grandma, Errol de Jesus of Morenita Mommy talks about her journey with languages, from discovering Japanese as a child, to learning Spanish through immersion, to raising her own multilingual, multicultural family.

Along the way, she found herself letting go of some of the expectations she had about what multilingual parenting was “supposed” to look like. Because sometimes the path we imagined for our family changes. And that’s okay.

Multilingualism can begin at birth, later in childhood, through family, friendships, community, or simply curiosity. It can look like fluency in one language and fragments of another. It can ebb and flow as life changes.

There is no single way to do it.
And maybe we can take a little pressure off ourselves, and make a little more room for joy, connection, and the languages that find their way into our lives. 💛

What has your multilingual journey looked like?

🎙️ Listen to the full conversation on the Talking to Grandma Podcast S1E.

⭐ If you enjoy the show, please subscribe, rate, and review—it helps more families, educators, and multilingual advocates find the podcast.

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09/18/2026

NYC amigues, come hang out with us. 💛

Spanish is living. It changes across countries, communities, generations, and even within our own families. For many of our children, that can mean growing up with Spanglish, different accents, language loss and reclamation, questions about gendered language, and sometimes the feeling that the way they speak isn’t quite “right.”

On October 9, we’re bringing together Dr. Veronica Benavides, Andrés Acosta, Gloria Rosario Wallace, Ed.D, and Lizette B. Suxo, Ed.L.D. at Bank Street College of Education Library for Amigues presente: Reclaiming Language, Identity & Belonging Through Storytelling.

We’ll talk about what it looks like to help Latine children feel at home in their languages, cultures, families, and identities, with practical ideas you can actually take back to your classroom and community.

Come for the conversación, stay for the good company, hands-on activities, snacks, and free children’s books. 📚✨

📍 Bank Street Library, NYC

📅 Friday, October 9 | 5:30–7 PM

💛 RSVP encouraged. Space is limited.

09/17/2026

Guugu Yimithirr, an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in and around Hopevale in Queensland, is well known for using cardinal directions, north, south, east, and west, in many situations where English speakers might use “left” or “right.”

For example, instead of saying:

👉 “The cup is on your left.”

a speaker might describe the cup as being to the west or to the east, depending on its actual location.

This means speakers need to keep track of their orientation as they talk. Research on Guugu Yimithirr has shown that this directional system is part of everyday communication, not just a way of giving directions.

It would be too strong to say that the language determines how its speakers think. But it does encourage a different kind of attention to location and orientation.

Language does more than label the world.

It gives us different tools for describing it, and different habits for noticing what matters.

🌎 Every language reflects knowledge built by its speakers and communities.

And that is one of the beautiful things about language.

09/16/2026

“No sabo” isn’t the absence of language skills. It can be evidence of language development in motion. 👀

When kids are learning language, they experiment. They notice patterns, apply rules, get things “wrong,” hear new models, and try again. That isn’t a failure to learn the language. That is learning the language.

So instead of laughing at the No Sabo kid, we should ask: Are we giving them enough opportunities to keep speaking? Are they hearing Spanish around them? Do they feel safe trying, even when they’re not sure they’ll get every word right?

Because language grows through use and belonging, not shame. 💛

Here’s to raising Sí Sabo kids who keep speaking, learning, and claiming Spanish as theirs, even when others try to gatekeep it.

09/14/2026

Hispanic Heritage Month starts tomorrow, and we have a little reminder: let’s not fall into stereotypes in our efforts to honor this month.

Instead, let’s celebrate the fullness of Latino communities. We have different languages, different histories, and different ways of speaking, creating, and belonging.

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