Julia Pimsleur
About Julia Pimsleur
“I consider myself a 'mompreneur' and don't separate being a woman from my business or product.”
Plenty of cartridges of ink have been spilled on the benefits of raising children to be bilingual, and the known upsides include higher cognitive skills and a lower rate of dementia in old age. So when documentary filmmaker and philanthropist Julia Pimsleur had a beautiful son of her own, she wanted to find a way to pass on those benefits to her son. “I started [Little Pim] for my son. I wanted to create an entertaining and effective way for young children to learn a new language,” explains Julia, the founder of Little Pim, an innovative system for introducing young children to a second language through their proprietary Entertainment Immersion Method®. Growing up not only as the daughter of famed linguistics scholar Dr. Paul Pimsleur but also as an English, French and Italian speaker, Julia always knew that the key to learning a new language was to speak it from a young age.
Prior to founding Little Pim, Julia studied at Yale and received an MFA in film studies from the French National Film School in Paris before going on to co-found a successful film production company. She has also drove $20M in fundraising for international human rights organizations and currently serves on the Advisory Board of Global Language Project, a nonprofit offering free foreign language education to students in disadvantaged public schools. With her focus on early education and desire to offer children an engaging way to learn, Julia’s identity as a woman and a mother is part of her success. Of course, she says it best: “I consider myself a "mompreneur" and don't separate being a woman from my business or product.”
Prior to founding Little Pim, Julia studied at Yale and received an MFA in film studies from the French National Film School in Paris before going on to co-found a successful film production company. She has also drove $20M in fundraising for international human rights organizations and currently serves on the Advisory Board of Global Language Project, a nonprofit offering free foreign language education to students in disadvantaged public schools. With her focus on early education and desire to offer children an engaging way to learn, Julia’s identity as a woman and a mother is part of her success. Of course, she says it best: “I consider myself a "mompreneur" and don't separate being a woman from my business or product.”