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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just don't understand the attitude that you have to have parents who can speak, read, etc the immersion language for their kids to become proficient/bilingual.  But maybe it's bc I'm an immigrant whose parents don't know English and I speak English just fine enough to get into an Ivy League college for undergrad.

You don't need native speaker parents to become bilingual in another language.  You really don't.  Only Americans seem to think this.[/quote]

Well, not just Americans think this.  There have been PLENTY of native Chinese (and sometimes other language) speakers who've chimed in to say the same thing.  And always many (like you) who tell their own stories and why this is such an absurd conclusion/assumption to make.  But they're not listening, and continue to spread that falsehood.  Sour grapes if you ask me, but it's just not always clear what the sour grapes are about.  Or why the critics don't get out more, because you really don't have to look far to find examples of people who are now proficient and even fluent without a parent or household member who spoke the language.  And for the record, I don't mean proficient by American standards, I mean by native speaker standards.[/quote]

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