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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a kid in a one-way immersion program. We don’t speak the language at home (though both parents can understand it at about 75%). No issues with kid learning to read or write in English.

[b]At 10 (3rd grade)[/b], they have been exposed to <5000 hrs of the immersion language. Assuming 10-hr days of consciousness since birth on average, that is out of 36,500 hours in English.

Assuming your kid learns typically, do not let this anxiety stop you from giving your kid the absolutely mind-blowing life benefit of being multilingual. Really.[/quote]
No 10 yo should be in 3rd grade.  Kids are mostly 8 yo in 3rd.[/quote]

Lord, bless the pedants.

My kid has been 9 through half of 3rd. Their redshirted peers, who I know nothing of academically, are 10. Whatever.

You can adjust the hours for your kid’s particulars; the point is the same. Say at 10–the end of 4th grade, you are insistent—they have been exposed to 5,400 hours of instruction in the immersion language.

The point is that 5 years of 180 6-hour days per year are totally overwhelmed by English exposure. The idea that a typically developing kid can not learn proper English if they are in immersion is bizarre.

If a kid has learning challenges, that’s a different story. All bets are off. MCPS is not doing well in this area so I’d be cautious if this is the case for your kid.[/quote]

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