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[quote=Anonymous]I was able to relax on the language front re our adopted kids when I noticed that the foreign parents of the kids on my child's soccer team ---who, being the biological parents of their kids and perfectly able to maintain a household where only the parents' native language was spoken---were STILL unable to force their American-born kids to speak their language. The children could clearly understand their parents, and could even---if forced---muster up a response in the parents' language---but their immediate "go-to" language for responding was always English. Kids gravitate to the dominant language of their surroundings. They just do. [/quote]
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