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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look I get that you don't have experience with this. It is a normal stage for kids to push back and try to speak the community language to their parent or parents. First, kids try it out. Then they refuse. Then they get to a point where they cannot speak the language and only understand it.

I do have friends both doing OPOL and doing minority language at home who rmanaged to reverse course and got their kid speaking again, but most people are not able to reverse it. It us common to reverse it by going to their home country and staying with family members who don't speak English and who support your kids speaking the language and stating for a couple of months, particularly if your kids have cousins their age to be with.

I know more people, including family members,who were not able to get their kid fluent for expression. The kids will have to work at it as older teens or adults. It will have to be their choice when older. 
The parents have huge regrets.
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I agree with this. My DH went through that phase as a child and lost his French. If you want your child to retain the language, you don't give them the choice when they're young. OP, with young kids it is totally fine and understandable IMO. What I wouldn't do is have full extended conversations in the other language to the exclusion of other people. Questions and answers, quick exchanges on the playground, etc. But if you're doing a playdate and talking for an extended period of time and the other children and adults just have to tune out, then yes that's a bit rude. I do this with Spanish and my SIL does this with German - we switch to English when it would otherwise be a conversation that everyone would be participating in. [/quote]

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