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[quote=Anonymous]As a family we speak a foreign language (foreign language No. 1), and we have traditionally brought au pairs who speak this language and she speaks to kid/us only in that target language. We are in a situation now where there are no au pairs available in that language, but we have an opportunity to get a rematch au pair who speaks a second foreign language that we (adults) speak well, and that kid has been learning for about six months once a week in an immersion setting. Kid is five and dominant language is foreign language No. 1 (school is bilingual), followed by English, and then has only basic understanding of foreign language no. 2. Our thought if we got this rematch au pair would be that we ask au pair only to speak foreign language no. 2 with kid, but give her option to speak with us in foreign language no. 2 or English - but keep our family language as foreign language No. 1. We don't want to alienate the au pair, but we don't want kid to lose foreign language No. 1, either. Thoughts?[/quote]

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