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[b]Why are parents pushing this bilingual education model on their young children?!  [/b]Do you all read and speak to your children in the target language at home?  It's one thing if you have systems in place to support your child's second language acquisition while he/she continues to master his/her primary tongue, but if after their school experience they do not have the opportunity to extend that learning and continually utilize the second language in an essential and functional manner, then why?

Because they want to give their children the gift of a second language?  There are many countries, with excellent education systems (better than ours, certainly) wherein students begin a second language in childhood, and sometimes even a third in adolescence.  Most Finish students, for example, speak Finish, Swedish, and English - even if their parents only speak Finish.  It seems to be only Americans who think learning one language is sufficient and learning a second is too challenging.  [/quote]

It's b/c most Americans expect everyone else to speak English, part of the stereotype for the "ugly American."  Most elites in every other country speak at least two languages.  It's funny lots of foreigners speak better English than many Americans who only speak English  :lol: [/quote]

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