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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you fly to the US annually for 25 years, have an English speaking daughter, and still speak NO English?? Not even a little? I took 4 years of HS French 20 years ago and I can still bumble my way through France![/quote]

Wow, you're nasty and stupid.

First, this person might never have had formal training in English.

Second, they might have, but with age comes significant learning loss, particularly in skills that are not practiced regularly.

My parents lived in the UK for 4 years as adults, decades ago, and had a couple of years of formal English classes for foreigners... but now in their 70s have forgotten a lot of words and the correct way to accent them. They can barely make themselves understood in English when they come here to visit.

Are you saying that if your children become fluent in a foreign language you've never studied, and you go visit them in that country, we should all excoriate you if you don't speak well? In your old age, no less?

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