Susanne Klocke: Aylin

Amir Khanlou Dept: The idea was a noble one, aimed at preserving the cultures of their own homelands while teaching Aylin to embrace Canadian values, according to Vancouver Sun. In total, about 31 per cent, or 712,000 people in the region, spoke these languages or French, or lived in multi-lingual households, according to the census and mETRO VANCOUVER - When their baby girl Aylin was born last December, Susanne Klocke and Amir Khanlou made a promise: Their daughter would grow up trilingual, speaking German, Persian and English. The Burnaby couple isn t the first, nor last, to adopt such an approach. Indeed, while 68.4 per cent of the population in Metro Vancouver speaks only English at home, according to data from the 2011 Census released on Wednesday, about 25.4 per cent conversed in a non-official language around the dinner table primarily Cantonese or Mandarin, Punjabi, or Tagalog, the language of the Philippines. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.