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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The brain plasticity that enable young children to learn languages easily ends at around age seven. Ask any immigrant that moved to the US with young kids. It isn't fair to place older kids into an immersion environment unless they are prepared to work hard at learning the language because they no have the ability to absorb the language seemingly effortlessly.[/quote] This, and I can't reiterate enough how discouraging it can be - especially for a child who has always done well in school - to suddenly be in an environment where everyone is ahead of you and you need "remedial" attention that you are taken out of class to receive. Even in the best of environments, that is incredibly hard for a child and just seems like a set up for frustration and discouragement at best, failure and prolonged loss of confidence at worst.[/quote]
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