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[quote=Anonymous]Imo it depends on how easy it will be for her to pick the language back up as an adult if she so desires. We have DD in Korean school so she can learn to read and write and practice speaking with others who aren't her immediate family. But the Korean alphabet takes about 5 minutes to learn, so if she starts hating it and doesn't want to go anymore, NBD, she can easily teach herself as an adult. Formality levels and such are a bit more complicated, but again it's not THAT difficult to pick up as an adult if you already have a lot of exposure to the language from a young age (which DD does).

If she never had any other exposure to Korean except occasionally hearing it from one parent, we would probably either force her to keep going or arrange for exposure in a different way (annual visits back to see family in Seoul or something, IDK.) Trying to learn Korean as an adult from scratch is the f***ing worst and she'd eventually appreciate us saving her from that fate.[/quote]

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