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[quote=Anonymous]I am the one whose child attends Lang Stars classes 4x/week (so that is 6 hours / week).  I agree that it won't make her fully fluent.  That is not my goal.  I think back to (and maybe this is too simplistiic, but it was my experience and so it resonates with me) how I was exposed to Spanish thru very simple things when I was little, such as on "Sesame Street" and "Electric Company," etc.  My parents spoke no Spanish at all and yet I feel that my early exposure made it much easier for me to pick up Spanish later, and I did not even take Spanish until I was in 10th grade in high school.  That's right:  TENTH GRADE.  But I felt it was really easy b/c I was already familiar with the general accent, some words, etc.  It wasn't totally "Greek" to me.

So, that is my goal in taking my DD to classes at Lang. Stars 4x/week.  I am not thinking it will make her fluent, give her a flawless accent, make her rattle off in a 2nd language a mile a minute.  I am trying to expose her to the tones, make it very familiar somewhere in the back of her brain, so that, later, it's not totally foreign and bizarre to her when she really tries to learn it.

So, I'd say, Lang Stars is highly effective for us, b/c those are our goals.  Will it be effective to you and your child?  Depends upon what your goals are.[/quote]

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