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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone have experience with a kid learning a language and then studying in it?  My kid loves language and would like to move somewhere, learn the language and then attend university there.  Does anyone have an estimate for how long it might take to get fluent enough for university?[/quote]Depends on both the kid and the language.[/quote]

I don’t think it’s realistic for most American kids from monolingual homes to try to do that.

Maybe some kids who’ve been in dual-language Spanish programs since kindergarten and have part-time jobs that require them to speak Spanish could handle it.

But the problem is that few American kids have much reason to use any second language other than Spanish.

Kids from non-English-speaking countries tend to have many more chances to use English, because music, games and movies are often English. And even a lot of those kids don’t really know English well enough to study history or physics at Tufts in English, even if they have high TOEFL scores. [/quote]

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