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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]17:29, Are you saying that children don't need to have a "mother tongue"? If I was OP, I'd be concerned to. As a bilingual person, I do not think this is a good way to do it. Speech therapy classing are booming these days.[/quote]

English will be their native tongue because that is what DC will hear and speak at home and while out in their community.

I actually only studied Linguistics in college... but then I became a Speech Pathologist! I can assure you NONE of the children we see are patients because of the way in which they were introduced to a second language. The issues people talk about are short-term, temporary "problems" that resolve themselves in time - the same way every child's own developmental timeline is different, the addition of a language can change them a bit but in no way affects the long-term abilities (by long-term I mean by the time they're starting preschool or kindergarden).

OP, this daycare is perfectly safe for her language (and other intellectual) development.[/quote]

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