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[quote=Anonymous]Yes in theory.  Our now 4 yr old twins have excellent understanding of spoken spanish but they don't speak it much unless they are surrounded by spanish speakers.  I don't think it has hurt them at all to have that be the language primarily spoken to them by their nanny, and I think it's a positive overall, but it didn't create fluency.

Her broken English did become a problem.  We replaced her with someone with true fluency in both languages but that nanny defaults to English so we still haven't achieved what we hoped.

I will be looking for a spanish language immersion program in elementary school.  I expect they will have a head start of a couple of weeks, and maybe a bit of an ear for more accurate pronounciation but that's probably about it.

In retrospect the language thing was less of a positive than I had hoped.

(And just for the relentless barrage that will come - both nannies were/are citizens, both were paid well and had very competitive benefit packages.)[/quote]

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