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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, most third generation immigrants (as your children are) will lose the language. There are a lot of studies that back up this trend. There just aren't enough reasons to keep it, and it isn't being reinforced by the culture that they live in.

I have a few friends who have successfully passed on the language to this generation, and all of them spent considering time in that home country with the kids -- think a year.[/quote]

+1 The people I know who maintained heritage languages multi-generationally made regular trips to their heritage country as children (like every summer there with grandparents/cousins/whatever) and interacted with relatives who primarily spoke the heritage language.  And/or the children developed an interest later in life -- I have a friend who's a third generation Chinese.  She got some language exposure as a kid (Chinese-speaking nanny for a few years), forgot it entirely, took it up as a foreign language in college after having taken French in high school, and now as an adult uses it in her professional career.[/quote]

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