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[quote=Anonymous]I didn't apply to Oyster and won't, but truly, our son who from the age of 3 months spent about 50 percent of his waking hours with his nanny who spoke to him only in Spanish was Spanish-dominant until about the age of 3 -- when I started letting him watch English TV and he began to socialize more with kids his own age who spoke English better than Spanish (at bilingual preschool for a few days a week).

Even now, you at times can see that his Spanish grammar laid the roots for his English grammar:   e.g., "I don't want nothing" or "those are mine's."    We're trying to fix this in English, obviously.

Whether you like this or not -- and I can see a good argument that those Spanish-dominant Oyster seats should be reserved for poorer families not like ours -- if the test is simply Spanish dominance (or fluency), he would have passed.

Now, after almost a year in an English-speaking pre-K, he is not Spanish-dominant.  Although his Spanish is excellent, it may not be fluent anymore.   But my new rule is that if he wants to watch a half an hour of TV with the nanny, he can, but it has to be in Spanish.   That actually helps a little - and she still speaks with him in Spanish after school and reads to him in Spanish.   [/quote]

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