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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the person, asking literally "how could you?", there are other ways than immersion to become fluent in multiple languages. I'm not convinced that immersion is necessarily the best way, surely not for everyone. Immersion isn't a magic wand that you can wave over your child's head to give her/him "the gift". Language development is more complex than that. For example, I speak and write four languages pretty fluently and wrote my Ph.D. in a foreign language. But was never in an immersion school. I learned them as second languages in school, starting in middle school. I traveled with my parents for vacation and did an exchange year in high school as well as in college.[/quote]

yeah...your exchange year...that was immersion in case you missed it. I learned as an adult as well and was so happy to be able to think and joke in the foreign language after years of "studying" it one class at a time. It really sank in in a way that it had not after being able to be immersed in daily culture and language in country. My kiddies are at an immersion school and they are delighted by their new tongue. they do math in it and science and they think in it. It's a joy to give them that base. I want them to have that other personality that you get to acquire in a foreign language. It is, in fact, a gift. We are lucky to have the choice and good fortune to do it here. [/quote]

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