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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS was in immersion until 3rd and then went to CES ( or HGC as it was called then). We didn’t see the immersion negatively affect his ability to read and write in English. In fact since his target language has a lot of Latin his vocabulary was sometimes wider than his English only peers because he could draw across languages. Now in a middle school magnet with a little outside tutoring he managed to keep his immersion language up at a reasonable level. [/quote]

Mine took the same path, and was in magnets through high school. She graduated with 10 AP credits and earned a 1580 on the SATs, so I would guess that whatever hit her English reading and writing skills took in immersion was corrected by the time she got to high school.

DC has taken a few French culture and literature classes in college, and found them very easy.  She has commented over the years that sometimes in conversation the right word comes to her in French before it comes to her in English, and the translation doesn’t always work because she thinks conceptually in both languages. I speak a second language as well and understand perfectly. It really does give you a different vantage point on the world.

She is thinking about applying to graduate school in France, and took an exam this year (the French government establishes standards for this) to determine whether she qualifies from a language capability point of view. She does.

Immersion opens up all kinds of possibilities.

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