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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Kid seems to pick up languages easily.  His current plan is to go to Norwegian folkehogskole.  He seems to think that in a year he'd be ready to go to Norwegian University of Science and Technology, which is ranked highly in his desired major.

That seems unrealistic to me, but maybe I am wrong?  [/quote]

Is he fluent (ie close to native speaker level) in any language?  I imagine that is what you would need at university level.  It's amazing if he can get to that level in one year but that would be pretty extraordinary.[/quote]

[b]He's pretty close to fluent i[/b]n a second language that neither parent speaks, and that he didn't study much at school.  He has studied another language for a couple years, and I am told speaks it well for the amount he has studied it but is far from fluent.  I think the only word he knows in Norwegian is folkehogskole.  [/quote]

How do you judge this, exactly? Especially when you're not a speaker of the language yourself. I am not being snarky. I have a DD who is a multi linguist and its been asked of me when I describe her abilities. [/quote]

While he doesn't take the second language at school, they teach it at his school, and that teacher has commented to me, as have family friends who speak the language.  He is a little obsessive about the language, so he seeks out opportunities to use it.[/quote]

Has he taken the assessments as described in the post above yours? Because your answer is about as wishy washy as it gets. My DD took Arabic and was told she was her tutor's best student, better than the adults she taught. She also took Chinese and her Chinese born teacher asked her where she'd learned it (at Pyle middle school, not in Shanghai). But these are all just anecdotes, they're not concrete. [/quote]

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