I would like to point out couple things I have observed here in US. I totally agree with Bhangli Damini "Among the different issues I mentioned above, the fourth one, the NEGATIVE EMOTION should be the one that distracts parents making them to think out of the box. Because of the language problem, they have lots of problems with fellow KHAIRES, which they dont' want to repeat with their kids". This is very true and I have observed this in the community I live too. I don't have kids but in the 10 years of living in US, I have noticed that the parents who has sound educational background tend to teach their kids Nepali language than the parents who do not have one. I'm not trying to make a biased judgement but People who came to US as any other means that the students (tourist, family sponsored, DV etc) seem to have problems communicating here with Americans and want their kids to speak Nepali. I also agree with Rythm that not having enough time to speak in Nepali makes it difficult for kids (like you went through when you were 7) to remember it when they speak english for hours. But lately, I have seen the increase in the families moving to US and the students here getting married and having kids.. so the population is rising and the kids will have chance to socialize so I don't think we really need to worry about preserving nepali language as long as parents are willing to save it. Last but not the least, I saw few people making comment as it is not nescessary to preserve Nepali language in USA, I have a question for you folks.... How will your kids interact with their grand parents or great grandparents (given that they don't understand or speak english)? If you don't give a damn about your parents and their interactions with their lovely little grandkids and have a precious time, then I don't have a say.