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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]My child adopted as an infant has no desire to learn her native language. We tried many times. She is now almost 11. She has started learning a language though on her own - Italian. We are not Italian btw.
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That is HER choice.  However, adopting an infant is different than parents who adopt children who are older and already speaking and make no effort for those children to maintain their language.[/quote]

I am not sure if you are spouting theory, or if you have actually gone through this experience.  I esuspect that you are thorizing and speaking not from experience, otherwise you would not be so flippant.  I am a new poster to this thread.  My older child refused, absolutely refused to continue with his language of origin.  Actually, his language at birth was unavailble to attain in this country.  The language in his orphange (national language) was his second language and a language that could only be maintained at a weekly class.  He refused to participate.  So, I stopped wasting my money.  [/quote]

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