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Post by elizac on Mar 18, 2012 13:24:41 GMT -6
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Post by bunsy on Mar 18, 2012 13:43:56 GMT -6
Interesting. We didn't raise our children bilingual but the younger two went to a spanish immersion elementary school. It added a level of challenge that they needed. I think it expands the brain in different ways. I wish ds1 could have benefitted from the school but it wasn't open yet.
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Post by camilla on Mar 18, 2012 15:08:19 GMT -6
We are raising our girls bilingual. Our pediatrician has always said that being bilingual was only going to help them. Glad to see others following in this theory.
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Post by bunsy on Mar 18, 2012 15:32:34 GMT -6
Camilla: Check out the communities you are looking to move too. There are quite a few immersion schools in the Mpls-St Paul area now with various languages. Maybe your kids could be tri-lingual!
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Post by sharon on Mar 18, 2012 15:44:54 GMT -6
What a wonderful gift to grow up with more than one language! What languages do your children speak?
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Post by camilla on Mar 18, 2012 18:14:12 GMT -6
My girls will grow up learning Danish. I am born and raised here in the States but my parents are from Denmark so I grew up learning the language too. I ended up married to a Danish guy too so it is a very natural thing for us to be teaching our girls.
When I was in 4th grade I was interviewed for a news story about bilingual children. We were about 10 kids from different backgrounds. The story ended up painting the picture that bilingual kids needed extra help in school when in fact 8 of the 10 were in the gifted program.
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Post by bunsy on Mar 18, 2012 18:17:52 GMT -6
The immersion school my kids attended had consistently higher test scores than the other elementary schools in the area. It was a definite benefit for them.
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Post by sharon on Mar 18, 2012 20:57:36 GMT -6
As a teacher I can tell you my training included specifically the information that bilingualism has great benefits for children.
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