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[quote=Anonymous]I wouldn't bother with language study that isn't immersion before age 9. Little kids learn languages fairly easily through at least 50% immersion in their daily lives, not via an hour or two a week of study. We're raising our children bilingual in a language one of us speaks fairly well, hosting au pairs who speak the language as native speakers year in and year out for nearly a decade now. Most of our mono-lingual DC pals don't seem to have a clue what it takes to raise a fully bilingual child. No idea at all. Dabbling in languages instruction for little kids doesn't pay off, parents just think it does. In Europe, where I lived for part of my childhood, the highest-performing national school systems (e.g. Switzerland, Netherlands, the Nordic countries) start teaching languages around age 9, several times a week.[/quote]
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