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[quote=Anonymous]Were you brown in the US? That’s not clear from your OP.

I loved to the US as an adult and my English was not great (it has since much improved and people often don’t even detect an accent). 
I speak to my kids in my heritage language, so do my parents and kids spend 2-3 months every year in my country. Older 2 kids are 100% fluent. Youngest is not at all. He understands everything, but is lazy and at 4 barely speaks English… I plan to have my kids spend summers there for as long as possible, but I don’t see them losing the ability to speak it.

My husband is also not American and he speaks his heritage language at home. However, my kids have not spent much time there other than a couple of weeks every 2 years or so. As a result, they are far from fluent. Older two are taking classes too, but while they understand it perfectly, they don’t speak well… just basic conversations and the start using English and my own heritage language.

All of this to say, that for us heritage language is not negotiable, but we are able to expose them to the culture and language a lot. [/quote]

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