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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You realize for people that are multi-lingual; French and Spanish is not a big deal.  Any combination of languages in Europe is normal in Europe. It comes of as: pulling a fast one.

Say you are Chinese and brag about being fluent in Chinese? Its normal - there was no additional effort on your part.
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Please stop. I am a European. Very few people are fluent in one, much less several languages. Just because they can give you directions to the Eiffel Tower doesn't mean they are fluent.

To say that "being fluent in Chinese requires no additional effort" for a child of Chinese immigrants (if that is what you are talking about) is laughable. As an immigrant I know a lot of immigrants and their kids (not many Chinese). Not a single child is fluent intheir parents' language. It is extremely difficult for an American born and educated child to be fluent in their parents' language. [/quote]

Where in Europe? Only people that are barely fluent in one are: British. My point is growing up multi-lingual does not require effort. If you did not grow-up multi-lingual then you are speaking out of ignorance. If you did not grow up multi-lingual then speaking 5 languages seems out of reach. Read the Op: One parent speaks Spanish and the other speaks French; With your logic all international students should be smarter than most American students because they are fluent in multiple languages.[/quote]

I completely disagree. It is VERY hard to be multilingual unless you grow up in a country where several languages are actually routinely spoken and written. Even with an ESL parent, it is hard to be bilingual. Most Hispanic kids at our school cannot write Spanish well and do not get a 5 on the AP exam. I fully agree with the actual immigrant here, as an immigrant myself. True fluency is hard and impressive.[/quote]
Spanish lang is an easy 5 for any ESL student, at least down here in Texas. The Spanish literature exam is a different story but it’s the most rigorous Ap humanities exam[/quote]

Not sure what AP Spanish language is like, but I saw people comparing it to B1-B2 level. This is not very impressive. My kids passed B1 DELF and they are far from being fluent in French.

In any case, languages that are spoken in the household are not very important. What matters is the language that peers are speaking, and language used for schoolwork. Look at it this way - grandchildren of immigrants know literally zero language. If parent-child transmission was anywhere close to significant it would take many more generations to lose it.[/quote]

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