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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are a bilingual (Spanish) family who pre-Covid traveled or received Spanish speaking family members at home frequently. My DD's Spanish seemed to being going okay until Covid. Our DCPS immersion PK program was not working for our family so we went private (Big 3) this year (Spanish once a week and some morning circles).  While we are happy with many aspects of DD's education and overall wellbeing, her Spanish seems to continue to lag (ie not verbalizing many words or thoughts in Spanish).  We just started supplementing with in person instruction outside of school but have had a hard time finding an in person program? What, if anything, did you do to supplement your child foreign language acquisition while attending non-immersion elementary private?  Did your child become fluent?  Please tell me I am stressing for no reason.  [/quote]

We own a home in France and our DC spends summers there and is exposed to French then, which he can build on with classes if he chooses. For us, the focus of his education was strength across the board: higher level science, math, classics, writing and all of the other fellowships, internships, mentorship and the alumni network his Big 3 offered- having a perfect accent, not so much.

I also think with technology moving forward there is so much rapid translation it isn't like its the 70's anymore and that the ONLY way to communicate is spend 12 years in a foreign language immersion school[/quote]

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