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[quote=Anonymous]Personally, DH and I felt it was important to embrace DD's culture while also introducing and adapting her to ours. So we DO speak her native language. Not fluently, but we can stumble along. We are able to expose her to people who speak it fluently. We also have an open adoption, and go to her home country approximately every 12-18 months. We wanted her to be able to carry on a conversation with her birth family when we visit. She already is overwhelmed and feels super weird with her worlds colliding and would feel even more weird if she couldn't communicate with them and had to rely on a stranger to translate back and forth.[/quote]
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