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[quote=Anonymous]As long as you don’t have safety concerns, I think you should encourage the visits.  The connection is valuable for its own sake, for many reasons.  Moreover, you may be surprised what they can do together, even without a common language.  My kids went to an immersion school, and it was amazing how much the K teachers were able to communicate, even though the kids didn’t understand a word initially.  (FWIW, both my kids needed speech therapy in English, and one had major articulation issues.)

There are lots of activities they can do that don’t require a lot of talking - puzzles, games, going to the park, gardening, cooking, crafts, etc.  Moreover, if there’s something that has to be communicated in words, they can probably use something like Google Translate to get the basic point across.

Even if they just watch TV, TV once a month isn’t going to hurt them.  Just set the expectation that the rules are the same at your house as they’ve always been.

Frankly, I’d recommend having them watch TV in the other language at home, but you seem to want to restrict TV.  I respect that choice , even if I disagree with DCUM’s perpetual disapproval of screens.  Personally, I think screens are just another form of media and it’s the content of any media that should be judged.  While there’s definitely some content on TV and the internet that kids should be protected from, and lots that have negligible value, screens can also provide exposure to information in ways that other media can’t, and language learning is one of those ways. The immersion school my kids went to kept a lending library of videos in that language so that kids could have more exposure to it.[/quote]

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