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I also find this thread amazingly interesting. I am a linguistics person and I can personally converse in English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, and a little Vietnamese and German. Now, none of these are perfect (my Asian character writing is often horrid), and I have yet to spend time overseas to have the natural flow that native speakers do, and yes sometimes I will accidentially mix some languages together when I speak, but I think it's very important in today's world to speak more than one language. The younger you are when you begin to learn, the better you will take it all in and it helps you mimic the accents a lot more.
My son is almost two, and when he's a little older he'll be forced to take German classes (as my husband's family is German). And we plan on a similar method for any adopted children that we have so that they will always have their native tounge, culture, and history no matter where in the world they are. To use the motto of Sigma Lambda Gamma “Culture is Pride, Pride is Success.”
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