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At least in the US this is often a sign of affluence, you need to have money to attend language school after your normal classwork. I was very ignorant of this

At least in the US this is often a sign of affluence, you need to have money to attend language school after your normal classwork. I was very ignorant of this when I was younger, my first girlfriend was Korean , but couldn't really speak it since her parents( presumably) didn't put her in classes. On the other hand, if your parents have money for language classes, they probably can afford general tutoring. So your doing better in school than your classmates. Before you mention public school language education, your lucky if your able to read attending a public high school. I went to one myself.

seizethecheese 4y ago
The linked study shows the opposite. Bilingual cohort was twice as likely to be low socioeconomic status. This is likely dominated by lower income immigrants.
- joseda-hg 4y ago
  As with most things it depends, I went to basically the most expensive school in my state (Not in the US), and never realized that it wasn't normal for everyone to actually learn the second language everyone has to take Only after getting exposed to the rest of the world (And people making a big deal out of it) did I realize that it was a "class" thing If the bilinguals are mainly economic migrants, sure, I'd expect the correlation to be different