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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they're not speaking the language everyday, it's all useless and a waste of time. [/quote] Ha ha! So untrue. My kids both learned a second and third language through classes and camps. [/quote] 1) people really don’t understand how variable language acquisition is. Even a child who invests a lot of time in a second language starting at a young age May walk away with a very weak skill level and another child may gain a lot of language; 2) in my experience Americans vastly overstate their ability to speak additional languages. I have no idea what you mean by “learned” and I bet you don’t know either. [/quote] My oldest child is living in France so I’d say her skill level was strong. She majored in the Spanish literature so her second language apparently “got learned real good” too. My younger child is in college and Minoring in French. She learned good too. [/quote]
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