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> The article seems to be mostly written in the context of unilingual parents who want a bilingual child. Yes. The core target audience of the article is likel
by GuiA 9y ago
> The article seems to be mostly written in the context of unilingual parents who want a bilingual child.
Yes. The core target audience of the article is likely unilingual families who will put their kid in French/Chinese/whatever classes to give them a leg up for Harvard admissions, 15 years later (or, in the NYTime's subtle language: "parents who want to give their kids a bilingual boost").
Obviously if the kid only speaks the language in the context of a classroom, true fluency will never be reached. In a realistic context, true multilingualism is very achievable, and not particularly exceptional throughout most of the world as many other commenters have pointed out.
- pbhjpbhj 9y ago>In a realistic context, true multilingualism is very achievable, and not particularly exceptional throughout most of the world as many other commenters have pointed out. // Implicitly you appear to suggest multilingualism is easy to achieve in [almost] all contexts? Where parents are monolingual, and the pervading culture is monolingual then there's little opportunity for immersion and few people from whom to learn.