Latin Cooper v DCI

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are only two ways your DCPS/PCSB kid is fluent: (1) you have or more native speakers in the home, have had this since birth, and those native speakers communicate almost exclusively in that language, or (2) your kid spends summers or gap years in foreign countries speaking only that language. Full stop. There is no other way your kid is fluent.

I think you simply don't know students with innate language talent. My kid can mimic any accent he hears and is an avid reader. That plus all media being set to his second language and a strong peer group of native speakers seems to have done the trick.

I am going to change my email signature to "Innate Language Talent". It used to say "entitled, self-involved, upper middle class professional with graduate degrees who never got over that feeling that my 3 year old was special and secretly believes in genetic supremacy". But yours is shorter and more to the point.

[Anonymous]

This depends on your kid. Math/science kid? Dci More into liberal arts? Latin. Hard pass on Latin Cooper.

[Anonymous]

No idea what you're getting at. DCI LESS into liberal arts than the Latins, other than language. Frankly, DCI is also less into science than the original Latin. They don't offer science or math that's as challenging.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are only two ways your DCPS/PCSB kid is fluent: (1) you have or more native speakers in the home, have had this since birth, and those native speakers communicate almost exclusively in that language, or (2) your kid spends summers or gap years in foreign countries speaking only that language. Full stop. There is no other way your kid is fluent.

I think you simply don't know students with innate language talent. My kid can mimic any accent he hears and is an avid reader. That plus all media being set to his second language and a strong peer group of native speakers seems to have done the trick.

My kid can perfectly mimic Bluey and Peppa Pig. I am certain she will become a cartoon character when she graduates from college.

[Anonymous]

+1.