Tell us about your child
Their first name, their age and what they love — dinosaurs, football, space. Every story is theirs.
For families keeping a language alive
Bedtime stories that grow with your child — in Italian and English.
You choose the mix — a sprinkle of Italian or nearly all of it. Every story stars your child, meets them where they are, and gently carries more Italian as they grow.
Polish, Welsh, German, Portuguese… whatever your family speaks
One sentence, four levels
Example in Italiano
All English
All Italian
How it works
Three steps to a story that's theirs
Five minutes a night. You stay in charge of the mix; the stories do the growing.
Set your language mix
Start with a sprinkle of Italian woven into English, or go further. You're in control, and you can change it any time.
Read together, and grow
After each story, one tap: too easy, just right or too hard. When your child is ready, the stories carry a little more Italian — and you can watch their words grow.
Read a page
One story. Any mix.
Slide the mix: the same story, from a sprinkle of Italian to mostly Italian. Tap any line to see it in English, so nobody gets stuck, child or parent.
Read it at
Sprinkle
Tap a line to see it in English
Print this pageA sample story, written to show each level. Every family's stories are made for their own child, in their own language.
A peek inside
Five calm minutes, every night
No scores, no drills, nothing to master. Just tonight's story, one tap of feedback, and words that quietly add up.
Why families like it
A bedtime story, not a lesson
No drills, no scores. Just a story at the end of the day, in the language your family wants to keep.
Nobody gets stuck
One tap shows the whole sentence in the other language, so a sleepy child — or a rusty parent — never loses the thread.
Your family's world
Stories can carry the festivals, food and sports your family lives with — La Befana, Sunday lunch at Nonna's, match day — plus the words only your family says. You choose; we never assume.
Screen-free if you want it
Every story prints as a lovely page. Make it in the day, read it from paper at night.
Checked by native speakers
Native speakers of Italian review our stories, so the language is correct and natural. Safety checks on every story. No ads, ever.
Made for your child
Their name, the things they love, and a new story every night. Not a catalogue.
Watch the words come back
A gentle progress view: the Italian words your child has met, how often, and how far you've come together — Sprinkle to Phrases and beyond.
Mixing doesn't confuse children
Mixing languages is how bilingual homes have always talked. Studies have found children pick up new words from mixed-language stories as well as from single-language ones. What the research says
Who it's for
For parents watching their child's home language slip away
She understands everything, but answers me in English.
For the fluent parent whose child switched to English at school. The mix grows, and you can see their words come back.
My Italian isn't good enough to teach.
For the second-generation parent. Start at Sprinkle, tap any line to see it whole, and grow alongside your child.
My partner can't join in.
For mixed-language couples. Both languages are always readable, so either of you can read aloud.
Founding families
Be one of the first families in
We're opening slowly, a few families at a time, so every story gets the care it should. Join the waitlist and we'll be in touch.
✦ Founding families
Help shape the stories your child will grow up with.
- First in line when we open the doors
- Stories in your family's language, whichever it is: tell us on the form
- A direct line to the small team building it
- Your feedback shapes what we build next
We'll write to you before anything opens. Joining the waitlist is free, and you can leave at any time.
Join the waitlist
Free, takes 30 seconds. We'll never ask for your child's name here.
Questions
Things parents ask us
Something else on your mind? Email hello@fluent-family.com. A real person on our team reads every message.
Won't mixing two languages confuse my child?
Mixing is how bilingual homes have always talked, and research on bilingual families doesn't support the worry. Recent studies found children can learn new words from mixed-language stories as well as from single-language ones — and in one study they needed fewer repetitions to remember them.
Sources: Libersky et al. 2025, Infant and Child Development · code-switching and new words · everyday code-switching and language development.
We don't do screens at bedtime.
Neither do we. Every story has a print-ready version — make it during the day, read it from paper at night.
My own language is rusty. Is this for me?
Very much so. Start at Sprinkle — mostly English with a few words of your language — and tap any line to see the whole sentence. Plenty of parents find they grow alongside their child.
Which languages will you have?
We're opening language by language, and the families on the waitlist decide the order. Pick yours on the form, whatever it is. The stories on this page are just examples.
If your language has regional varieties (Spain or Latin American Spanish, European or Brazilian Portuguese), choose the one your family speaks. Every language is checked by native speakers before it opens.
Is it safe for children?
Every story passes safety checks before your child sees it, and native speakers review our stories so the language is right. No ads, ever, and nothing is ever advertised to your child.
What do you do with my data?
For the waitlist we keep only your email and the answers on the form — never your child's name. We count visits without cookies, we never sell data, and you can unsubscribe or ask us to delete everything at any time. The details are in our privacy notice.
When can we start?
We're inviting a small group of families into a beta first, then opening to the waitlist in waves, language by language. Joining the waitlist is free, and we'll email you before anything opens.
We're a small team, and we started Fluent Family with a question that gets harder every school year: how do you keep a family language alive once English becomes the easy choice?
Lessons feel like homework. Bilingual books are the same book for every child, at one fixed level. So we're building the bedtime story we think families like ours need: made for your child, and carrying a little more of your language whenever they're ready for it.
We're building it carefully and in small batches, with native speakers reading the language before it reaches your child. Join the waitlist and you'll hear from us directly. Every reply is read by a real person on the team.
The Fluent Family team
One story a night. A language for life.
Join the waitlist for early access, in your family's language.
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