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[quote=Anonymous]This is a wonderful opportunity for your daughter to achieve bilingualism if you continue Spanish-speaking care as she gets older (if her FT caregiver speaks it until she is 5 or 6, she will be well set to continue using it or, if the opportunity wanes, to pick it up again when she gets older). From a linguist's perspective, there is no problem at all with how much time she spends exposed to either language - English will be the dominant language of her life, so you don't need to worry about her not getting enough exposure to that, and this type of intensive exposure to Spanish is what trains the brain to use the language later. You might find she does a lot of switching (speaking in one language then dropping in words from the other) and she might speak a little later than she otherwise would have, but not necessarily either. There is absolutely no problem at all in this type of arrangement. [/quote]
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