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I’m an expat in Japan - I wonder if there are effective ways to get your kids to have separate friend groups in different languages so that they end up learning
by presentation 5y ago
I’m an expat in Japan - I wonder if there are effective ways to get your kids to have separate friend groups in different languages so that they end up learning to a high level of proficiency from peers in either group, like classmates speak English at some international school or something + all Japanese in some Kendo club or some kind of hybrid multilingual school. Maybe religious groups have been a good source of local/foreign language peer groups in this sense?
- bluGill 5y agoOnly if there is no other common language, otherwise they will all speak English when they realize they know it anyway. (Or perhaps Japanese in your example )
- presentation 5y agoYeah that’s what I’m thinking - I wonder if there’s a natural way to have one’s children end up with peer groups that really are dependent on separate languages.