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[quote=Anonymous]Looking for ideas.... my rising kindergartener did not get lucky in the language immersion lottery, and I'm pretty disappointed.  I know we have a shot again at first grade and will definitely apply but in the meantime I'm not going to hold my breath.

Has anyone had luck pursuing Spanish or French in a serious or semi-serious way outside of an immersion program?  (I don't think enrolling in private school is in the cards for us.)  I know there are Saturday schools and private tutoring is possible.... just wondering what others in our shoes have done and if anything worked well or did not work well.  Our daughter is already very interested in Spanish but doesn't have any current skills beyond basic phrases -- sadly we're not a bilingual household.  I suspect that given her interest she'd pick it up well, for whatever that is worth.  She's a fairly academic kid, as far as that goes at age 5.

I'm also somewhat curious what opportunities might exist later in K-12, other than starting level 1 language in 6th grade.  Is testing into a language immersion program later in elementary remotely possible without native level skills?  What about more advanced language classes in middle school?  Or is that realistically only going to serve the immersion kids?  Basically, I'm willing to do some work to support foreign language but I'm wondering if that has us going it on our own the whole way or if there's hope to tap into more advanced language programming at MCPS at some point.[/quote]

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