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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you read up a little on the acquisition of foreign languages you'll quickly find that for the acquisition of a second language it doesn't matter all that much how many native speakers there are. We're a bi-lingual family (English-German) who has lived in both language contexts and our kids confirm research results, namely that the language they speak with each other will sooner or later gravitate towards the environmental language, that spoken in public. They will address teachers and parents in the language because they understand that's part of the family, cultural, or instructional expectation. But amongst each other, informally, they'll speak English. I'm willing to bet that's the case in any foreign school around here, even schools with close to 100% native speakers. Any parent who has tried to foster a second language via language playgroups will have come face-to-face with exactly this phenomenon.[/quote]

So zero native speakers works as well as 50%?  You can explain away the many studies proving that 2-way immersion produces better results for elementary and middle school-age kids than 1-way?  And the fact that 2-way immersion is the norm in this country where enough native speakers can be found?  You're not just learning a language with immersion, you're learning about a culture.  At least you lived in both language contexts - who at YY is doing that with kids?

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