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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Former teacher and current speech pathologist. I would agree with you OP. Many children, whose nannies or au pairs are limited in English often mimic the speech patterns that they hear. For example, I have children who I am currently trying to deprogram Carribbean accents and incorrect grammatical speech patterns. Although people on this forum want to be PC, it pays to be realistic.

If you get a nanny with poor grammar, you’ll end up paying for it in some form or another. However, it means more business for me should you choose to ignore this :)[/quote]

Hahahaha
Racist and dumb.

I know kids who grew up with nice nannies who only spoke Spanish and they turned out just fine. They speak English perfectly well and never needed extra tutoring.[/quote]

My kid has had a Spanish speaking nanny his whole life  Her English isn't native quality--but he's gotten nothing but 99% scores on his MAP tests, so by definition he's outscoring 99 out of 100 kids around him on reading and math.   OP sounds dumb.[/quote]
Who taught him English? When did he speak comfortably?[/quote]
I spoke to him in English and my nanny spoke to him in Spanish, just like many families with Spanish speaking nannies. He spoke at 8 months (both languages a bit mixed together).   I suppose the anti-foreign language posters on this thread would say he would have spoke at 6 months had he not been so unlucky to have a Spanish speaking nanny. :roll: [/quote]

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