The bilingual story time at the Arlington Community Center in Nashua is a new program that gives toddlers and their parents the chance to hear stories in English and Spanish every Thursday.

Children’s Program Coordinator Manisha Chourasia said the story time is one of several efforts aimed at teaching kids about different cultures in the city, like bilingual story time and the passport to the world series at the Nashua Public Library.

"I think that the more inclusive we are as a community to welcome different languages, the better and happier everyone will be,” Chourasia said.

Marinely Abud, one of the volunteers who runs the story time, said that reading stories in Spanish is helping her two younger kids learn the language. She's from the Dominican Republic and said that one of the

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