Why Jimmy Fallon Is Teaching His Daughters to Speak Spanish

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Jimmy Fallon and Jennifer Lopez teamed up to marque it easier for non-Spanish speaking parents to rise their kids bilingual. Here's what helium had to accidental astir it.

Jimmy Fallon connected Raising His Kids to Be Bilingual

For Jimmy Fallon learning a caller connection is simply a household activity.

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon big explained that erstwhile helium and his woman Nancy Juvonen had their kids, Winnie, 9, and Frances, 7, they knew they wanted their miss to beryllium large readers and recovered that books were besides the cleanable mode to exposure them to caller languages. 

"As soon arsenic they were born, we were speechmaking to them," Fallon exclusively told E! News, "and erstwhile you get nerdy erstwhile you person your archetypal babe you get truthful into speechmaking each publication and each nonfiction astir however bash we make our kids geniuses.'"

He continued, "I got each these antithetic books successful antithetic languages. I got Green Eggs and Ham successful Italian, but the full publication is successful Italian. I don't cognize however to talk Italian."

So, for the comedian, who has written respective children's books, it made consciousness to research it himself. For his latest book, helium teamed up with Jennifer Lopez to constitute Con Pollo, a bilingual publication successful English and Spanish that's cleanable for parents who don't cognize the language.

"The thought with this is to marque it elemental truthful that anyone who wants to effort to work this can," helium told E! News' Francesca Amiker, speechmaking a leafage from the book. "Isn't this fun? Pollo rhymes with Fro Yo, it's a chicken, a bird."

Fallon added, "You commencement knowing it, you get much calm and relaxed with the words and by the extremity you're speaking Spanish, it's fun."

For the Saturday Night Live alum, Con Pollo is coming astatine an perfect time. "My kids are learning Spanish successful schoolhouse now," helium said. "So this is cleanable for their property group." 

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As for the precocious nighttime host? He's inactive moving hard connected his connection skills.  "I'm successful the heavy of it close now," Fallon noted. "I'm learning 'un poquito' and the much I bash it and speech to them astir it the amended I'm getting astatine it. It's benignant of amusive to bash it together."

Con Pollo is retired now.

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