Multilingual Families : Supporting multilingual families A linguistic treasure for Europe. Preserving the linguistic and multicultural diversity of Europe immigrants and bilingual families. http://www.multilingual-families.eu/ The “Multilingual Families” project is an important project that is targeted at preserving the languages and culture of the 47.3 million immigrants living in the European Union and the many families with parents with more than one language . These people represent a linguistic treasure house for Europe and one that must be preserved to enhance the linguistic and multi-cultural diversity of Europe. To preserve this treasure in to the second generation, the children of immigrants and linguistically diverse parents, is vital as a continuing linguistic resource. Children who are bilingual are also a strong beacon to their monolingual peers that bilingualism, or multilingualism is obtainable.