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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mine did.  However it did produce some issues with writing, not reading.  I suppose it depends on the language.  Both of my kids read/write/speak English and German.  They are now college/high school.

Both struggle (still) with English spelling--German is much more straightforward in that way, although the language is grammatically more complex.[/quote]
Thank you for responding! Our second language is German and while the child speaks it, I wondered if introducing “ch” and “sch” as in ach nein and Schule would confuse the phonetic principles the child learned in “church” and “sheep” if that makes sense.[/quote]

My kids did French immersion and I agree with other posters that I don't think your kids will have a problem learning German now.

As for differing phonetic principles, a child reading at a third grade level will certainly have come across the words "school" and "Christmas".  Now you can teach them that those words follow spelling patterns from your country and that English has lots of words taken or adapted from other languages.  An awareness of word origins can help them in spelling.[/quote]

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