Ep133: Teaching kids their heritage language - a conversation with Jojo Learning Founder Christine Yang Barry

About this episode

In this episode, the hosts interview Christine Yang Barry about raising multilingual children and the benefits of introducing Mandarin through musical books.

**Giveaway Alert! Keep reading for details** In this episode, we interviewed Christine Yang Berry, creator of the multiple award-winning Jojo Chinese songs for Baby and Me musical book series. Christine created these musical books to help families introduce Mandarin to babies, toddlers, and preschoolers through singing, bonding, and everyday communication. We talk to Christine about the challenges, rewards and opportunities for raising multilingual children and what she's learned over the years about what's foundational for children to acquire multiple languages (hint: it's not flashcards or forced Saturday language school). To celebrate the episode, we're giving away 10 copies of books 1 and 2 of the series. To enter the giveaway, please follow @modelminoritymoms and @jojo_learning on Instagram and comment the word "giveaway" on the post announcing this episode drop. Anyone who tags a parent friend who might also want to raise a Chinese English bilingual child will also receive an additional entry in the random drawing per friend tagged. Giveaway ends March 31 2026. Winners announced in early April 2026. Jojo Learning is also offering a special discount to MMM…

People in this episode

Hosts: Kate Wang, Susan Lieu, Jeanette Park

Guest: Christine Yang Barry

Topics covered

• heritage language
• multilingual children
• parenting
• Mandarin
• musical books

Keywords

• heritage language
• multilingualism
• parenting
• Jojo Learning
• Mandarin
• children's books
• giveaway

Sponsors

Jojo Learning

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Jojo Learning, Model Minority Moms

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