When I met my husband (Neil), nor he knew how to speak Hindi fluently neither did his brothers. As time passed by, I wanted my husband to learn Gujarati language but there were no tools for him to learn Gujarati. I wanted him to study Gujarati meaning and learn Gujarati phrases. There were no Gujarati-English translation books that had a way to pronounce the words in Gujarati. Most of the materials that I was able to find were written in Sanskrit. So, the most he would do is just repeat what I have to say but that didn’t work out well to learn Gujarati speaking. Also, I knew that whenever I had a child, I would want my child to learn as many languages as they can speak fluently, especially in Hindi & Gujarati. So, when my son was born, I would read him a book in English. However, every time I read to him, I would wonder if wouldn’t it be nice to have books translated into our native language. Even though I translated books into Gujarati, I too came short of words being translated into Gujarati with English translation and meaning. I would ask this question every day, ‘How to learn Gujarati easily?’ So, I thought to myself, if no one does the translation to some of these books, I can create flashcards for some basic or everyday things to help parents teach their children to learn their mother tongue in a fun way.

I started this journey not to only educate my son and husband about the importance
of speaking multiple languages but also having a tool for other parents to pass on their native language.