Re:The Bitter Fight Over the Benefits of Bilingualism
by Grishnakh on Thursday February 11, 2016 @11:13AM
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Does anyone ever achieve fluency in school? I seriously doubt it. I studied German for four years in high school, and I am most certainly not fluent. AFAICT, you really have to be immersed in the language for some time to become truly fluent in it. Studying it in a classroom with only one single fluent person (the teacher) to talk to is not going to do it.
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Re:The Bitter Fight Over the Benefits of Bilingualism
by mikeash on Thursday February 11, 2016 @11:33AM
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Probably not. Well-off people can better afford study-abroad programs and other such things which could potentially take you from a foundation learned in school to fluency, so that would still be a potential link. Still, the number of people who pull that off has to be small compared to those who just grow up in a bilingual (or just non-English-speaking) household.