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It's NORMAL for younger kids to fight you on this, OP. We are international, are friends with a lot of international families, and this is what always happens!

What you do is force them. When they're old enough to have American friends taking beginner language classes in middle school, they will feel superior and start to realize the advantages they were born with, but not before. And when they get to high school and you start explaining the language requirements for graduation, as well as the language requirements for college admissions and many undergraduate programs... they will appreciate it more!

But it won't be before they're parents themselves and are mature enough to value passing on culture and values to their own children, that they will truly be grateful for what you've done for them.

So my friends and I all force our kids to attend their weekend language schools; we all show them news, movies and radio programs in our native language (radio is quite challenging because of the rapid fire delivery unaided by visuals); we introduce them to the great classics of literature, and main cultural and historical events. Some language schools have history classes built in anyway. The more you can travel to your home country, the better. It's a very important and valuable aspect of your daily life, OP. You won't regret pushing your kids on this.

100%. Our kids are applying to colleges now and boy are they grateful I made them do the lessons every weekend. 
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