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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The sad truth is that PP above probably wouldn't have done any better here in NW.  I've heard similar stories from Deal and Wilson parents trying to raise bilingual and biliterate kids. They didn't want their kids forced to study a 3rd language at school but were given no choice.

DC schools aren't sophisticated about language instruction and the benefits of bilingualism like the school systems MoCo and N. VA. Immigrants who aim high on language instruction need to go private or move to the burbs.[/quote]

huh? how does being required to study a 3rd language keep your kid from being bilingual? I know plenty of people raised trilingual, doesn't seem to slow them down.  It's pretty common among the international set, if you have parents from different countries and then your kid learns a 3rd & 4th language in school (like, mom is French, dad is Dutch, kid goes to school in Netherlands and learns Dutch and English.)  [/quote]

Were you fully bilingual and biliterate as a preteen, and raised in the US?  Or maybe even trilingual and fully triliterate?  If yes, you'll understand me when I assert that raising fully bilingual children in mostly monolingual DC in a language other than Spanish is a formidable task.

Some of us who speak a language other than English at home struggle mightily, day and night, to raise fully bilingual and biliterate children, particularly in tough Asian languages without phonetic scripts. We'll leave trilingualism to the Swiss, thanks.

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