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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It comes up because a lot of parents wonder what the point of doing it is l, if a.) you’re risking your kid not understanding the fundamentals really well because they’re being taught in a foreign language and b.) the odds are that your child will never become fluent anyway.[/quote]

Yes, this is my basic concern. A couple years later, the ephemeral language gains are mostly lost, and the sum total of it might just be lost time on core subjects. I know there could be a lot of huffing about boiling it down to this but... if you're a teenager without Chinese speaking context, little language ability anyway, and a need to spend your time on your subjects or grades....could you really say it was worth it?

It's unclear enough to me to say, "Nah."[/quote]

Again, though, couldn't this be said of other language-immersion schools? Why would this be true for a Chinese-immersion school but not a Spanish-immersion school, for instance? [/quote]

Because Spanish language and culture and opportunities to practice in real life are more common in the US. [/quote]

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