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“We did not send him expecting that he would be fluent at the end of ES. We knew that the focus was more on learning the spoken language and even that would mainly be in Science and Math. He is taking the language in MS now. It is a regular class. He is taking the HS level 1 class. The benefit that his class has because it is all immersion kids, is that they know the alphabet and what the language sounds like. They have an idea about the grammar because they have been listening to the language and done some writing in the language. He is feeling more confident with his abilities in the class and I would guess that they will pick up the pace as they are doing more grammar and vocabulary tests. They have completed several presentations about their family and pets and other subject matters.”

Montessori doesn’t make think of rigorous study.   I couldn’t stomach listening to the German language, it is ugly and I can’t help thinking of two World Wars with Germany and six million Jews killed along with millions of others every time I hear it.

I was pulled out for French classes starting in 2nd grade and I hated it. I had no choice until 8th grade when I could finally leave it behind.  Ironically my mothers family is 100% French Canadian and my mother is the first English speaker in the family

I would choose Spanish.  It is one of the most common spoken languages in the world.  It’s one of the more logical languages where there aren’t so many silent letters and odd spellings.   Not many silent letters either.  The words can be sounded out.

We tried to get Spanish immersion in our city but there was a long waiting list.    Starting in kindergarten they would be taught only in  English one week, the next week they would be taught in Spanish alone.  The two languages were equal The program went through high school.   The kids graduated bilingual.  There are enough Immigrants who only spoke Spanish and enough Latino Americans in the program so plenty of friends to speak the language.  They are fully bilingual upon graduating high school in reading, writing, speech [/quote]

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