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[quote=Anonymous]In many places in the world people are taught the native language and English without even blinking because essentially you HAVE to know English to be successful. I can't tell you how many people I work with that have 3-4 languages with various levels of fluency and I'm frankly jealous. The language immersion boom just recognizing that the US is way behind in this and to learn languages best, you must start young. I didn't start language until 9th grade at public school- got to AP level, but would not even come close to calling myself fluent. Then switched languages in college (dumb choice, but oh well)- studied abroad, took the most advanced language class while abroad and again, wouldn't deem myself fluent in that language either and have all but lost it now 10 years later. I want better for my kids. My 18 month old daughter has a Spanish-speaking caregiver and understands a ton of Spanish when spoken to her, can speak probably 5-10 words and can count 1-10. I recognize this is pretty advanced for her age, but the point is the earlier the better and you have to keep it up. We hope to enroll her in an immersion pre-K and ES. The kool-aid tastes delicious.  :) [/quote]

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