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Originally Posted by hud 91gt
My wife is Greek, and didn’t really start speaking English until she was in school. Her English still seems like a second language sometimes. Pretty funny. It was Greek in the house all the time.
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Growing up I had a bunch of friends that were in French immersion, their English speech was fine but for a lot of them their writing/typing was terrible, IM'ing or texting them was like reading stuff from a very fresh ESL student. A couple years after grad one of them went to France and tried to use the French he spent 12+ years becoming fluent in to order at a cafe and they refused to serve him because his French apparently wasn't bang on.
My point being whatever languages they're learning, one of them should be a primary focus over the others. Obviously being multilingual is an asset but if you can't form a coherent email in any of them I'd think that's a bit of a hindrance to your professional life later on.