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[quote=Anonymous]It's really really hard and you have to make it a priority from the beginning for anything to stick. Mine is still very young (3). But we are making it a priority. Had a nanny who spoke my native language to dd exclusively for 3 years. I only speak to her in the language (to the point that I forget and speak to all little children that way some weekends). We sent her to preschool in that language and dd spends a lot of time with my parents as well. Most nights only daddy can read English books and mommy reads the other ones. Her first cartoons were not in English. She sometimes gets annoyed that I talk to dh in English and says "mommy, no talk English". I have her attention until she's 5 and goes to regular school and then we will find special extra curricular activities for her. And I will have to enforce the ignoring the English as well. I moved here at 10 and my parents did a great job with keep it alive and forcing me and I'm bilingual (for everything except highly specialized things). [/quote]

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