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[quote=Anonymous]This European is heartily sick of myopic, ill-informed American views on how kids learn languages.  In European government secondary schools (age 11 or 12-18) it's completely normal to start studying a second language seriously around age 10, without stopping until age 18.  Europe doesn't have "specialty" programs for learning languages.  We study languages methodically, like we study math, building skills from one year to the next.

When you come here to staunchly defend Latin's practice of squandering the hard-won immersion language skills of many of its 11 and 12 year old students, particularly poor kids, you come off as a dingbat.

BASIS does the same thing.  Deal is a little better.  These are not best educational practices.  Much could be done to change this at Latin and other schools, e.g. PTA financed after-school language clubs for advanced students.  We're not talking about private school kids who come into Latin speaking Spanish and French, and possibly Chinese and Hebrew, we're talking about public school kids, some of the poor and minority.[/quote]

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