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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Agree 100%. So many Indian kids are doing great in school and go on to become successful. Many of their parents can't speak English well nor do they speak to their kids in English at home for fear of the kids not being able to speak the mother tongue. However in India and Pakistan education is everything and the families support their kids completely.

Pretty ignorant for anyone to think you must speak English in the home for kids to become successful. Children pick up on English in school eventually anyway[/quote]

Many of these parents do not speak English well, but chances are they were schooled in English since it is the official language of India.  Many countries use English textbooks and the children read in English, but will use the native language to discuss or talk to their friends and family (so it is basically their social language).  These people have had academic language in English through reading at school, but have not heard enough English to feel comfortable or to speak it without pronunciation "errors" that make them hard to understand for natives.  So they may not speak it, but they have a pretty good understanding of much of it.  This is basically the difference between learning English here as versus there.

My niece spent time in college in another country and she had no problem with the textbooks (all English as she was in the sciences at that level), but she had to listen to lecture and discussion in the second language (which she had learned).  She did fine.  [/quote]

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