# Give your children a second language.

**Then give them a reason to keep it.**

Children learn a language the way they learn to walk.  
By trying.  
By falling.  
By being answered.

No app can answer them.  
People can.

That is why so many children who start a language at school end up losing it.  
Not because they were bad students.  
Because nobody at home used it.

So use it at home.

One reading a day.  
The same passage in two languages, side by side.  
At breakfast.  
At bedtime.  
In the car.

You read a line.  
They read the next.  
They get a word wrong.  
You laugh.  
They try again.  
Tomorrow the word they tapped comes back, just before they forget it.

A child who speaks their grandmother’s language inherits more than words.

A child who reads the books that formed the world inherits more than a résumé.

**Leaders raise readers.**

## Read next

- [Why learn a language when AI can translate everything?](https://kanboombo.com/languages/why-learn-a-language/): For the same reason you still walk when cars exist.
- [If you want to keep your brain young, give it something hard to do.](https://kanboombo.com/languages/keep-your-brain-young/): Learn another language.
- [Leaders learn languages.](https://kanboombo.com/languages/): Because you will always seek connection.

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