“My daughter asks for one more story every night, now in Farsi.”
Leila · Iranian mother
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Heritage language, made natural
Learning their heritage, in your voice
RootED is a personalized platform that uses intelligent voice and language models to deliver multilingual children's stories in trusted family voices, helping families preserve language, culture, and intergenerational connection
Coming to iOS & Android · Fall 2026
Currently supporting
FarsiMandarinCantoneseHindiSpanishEnglish
Loved by families raising bilingual kids
Early voices from the RootED circle
The problem
10.7M children are at risk of losing their heritage every year.
For multilingual families, the slide away from a heritage language is quiet, fast, and begins the moment school takes over, and almost nothing exists to stop it.
64%
of children in immigrant households shift to English dominance by the time they start school.
<30%
of families keep up consistent heritage-language use past age five, and only about 2% stay fluent by the fourth generation.
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screen-free solutions exist today that expose children to their heritage language in a low-cost, consistent, and customizable way.
Why we built RootED
Preserving generational culture with each and every story
Our team believes deeply in the importance of cultural preservation and connection to heritage. We've all either experienced ourselves, or watched family members struggle, to stay connected with their family's language and culture. We want the next generation of children to answer a grandparent without reaching for a translation, to grow up inside the stories, the festivals, and the small everyday words that made us who we are.
RootED exists to keep a family's language and culture alive at home, in the voices children love most.
سلامनमस्तेHola你好Goodnight
What is RootED
Four ways RootED keeps a language alive at home.
A real library, real voices, and stories made for your child, working together so heritage language is something they live in, not study.
A library worth growing up on
RootED begins with cultural stories children can return to again and again: folktales, festival stories, family-table moments, and everyday language that feels alive.
Curated story library
Voices that sound truly native
Children hear each story in a warm storytelling voice that carries the rhythm, pronunciation, and emotional tone of the language.
Leading storytelling voices
Told in the voices they love
Families can record trusted adult voices, with clear consent, so the language sounds close before it sounds academic.
Family voice capture
Stories made just for your child
RootedAI can create stories around your child's age, interests, family traditions, and language level, while keeping the experience simple.
Personalized AI stories
Why it works
Listening leads to learning, amplified by familiar voices.
RootED is built on how children actually absorb language and hold onto culture, through familiar voices and meaningful stories, early and often.
47%
Of children's heritage-language proficiency is linked to their home language environment: family language use, books, and rich media exposure.
Sun & Yin · Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
97%
Accuracy with which young children pick out a parent's voice in under a second, lighting up reward, emotion, and memory centers, not just hearing.
Stanford Medicine · PNAS, 2016
~10%
Of all the words a young child hears in a day can come from rich stories: varied vocabulary everyday conversation rarely uses.
Montag et al. · Psychological Science, 2015
3rd
Generation by which a family's heritage language is usually lost without deliberate effort, with the slide often beginning as early as the second.
Alba et al. · Demography, 2002
Heritage-language vocabulary tends to stall right as school in the majority language takes over. RootED is designed for exactly that window, keeping the family's language present, meaningful, and heard.
How it works1 2 3
Play our stories or create your own
RootED does the heavy lifting behind the scenes: story curation, personalization, voice selection, and language support. For families, it stays close to one familiar rhythm: choose a story, press play, listen together.
Start with your child
Add their age, interests, and the language you want them to hear more naturally.
Choose a story or create one
Browse the curated library or ask RootedAI for something personal to your family.
Press play whenever stories fit
Queue stories, pick a voice, and let gentle repetition do its quiet work.
Care & privacy
The most personal thing you'll keep here is a voice. We treat it that way.
RootED is built for families trusting us with something precious. Here's exactly how we protect it.
Secure data
Your family's data is used for one thing only: telling stories inside the RootED app. Never sold, never shared, never used to track your child.
In your control
Delete a story or a voice and it's gone, removed from our records and databases for good. What you create stays yours to keep or erase.
Voice consent
Every family voice begins with a clear consent form, so you understand exactly what's captured and how it's used, and never for anyone under 18.
Keep their stories close, in every language.
RootED is opening soon to a first circle of families. Join the waitlist and we'll save you a spot.
Founding families get early access and free features when we launch.
No spam, just launch updates. Coming to iOS & Android, Fall 2026.
