Spanish speaking 5 year old

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god this is just such a mind bogglingly stupid OP it is kind of impressive

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For realz...it would be more surprising to me if the girl was speaking English to her parents imo. I know many people who aren't native speakers of English and almost none of them speak English as the primary language at home despite having been in America for 10+ years in many cases and being fluent at English.

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Jesus Christ.

NT please hand out some stars or make me mod and let me hand out a couple stars for the retards in this thread.

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god this is just such a mind bogglingly stupid OP it is kind of impressive

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[Dids]

In general, bi-lingual kids are going to eventually have much greater language skills that not. This is very much a plus for the kid.

[businessdude]

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god this is just such a mind bogglingly stupid OP it is kind of impressive

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If it is boggling your mind, you might be missing the point.

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I saw a little 5 year old girl at lunch with her Hispanic parents and noticed she was speaking Spanish. Is this the norm? This seems like a disservice to the child IMO. Shouldn't the parents make English a priority for the kid? Why give her another barrier to overcome?

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I'd be more pissed if my parents spoke the language and refused to teach me the language. (One of my friends is like this).

Her knowing two languages will be a huge advantage for later in life.

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Knowing Spanish + English = huge advantage? Over whom? The deaf?

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Are you serious? You have never thought that knowing an additional language would ever be useful to you in your lifetime?

Do you just hate information or what?

[secretprankster]

Give me a scenario where this girl will be at some mega-advantage with these worldly linguistic skills.

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god this is just such a mind bogglingly stupid OP it is kind of impressive

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If it is boggling your mind, you might be missing the point.

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That you are a narrow-minded individual?

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I know English and I know Spanish pretty well. I'm not going to be a U.N. translator but still. I can't think of many times when knowing Spanish has been useful at all. Assuming this girl is Spanish, so she probably grows up in a Spanish neighborhood. Knowing English is ldo and everyone she's around knows Spanish. And I'm sure these kids are just REAPING the advantages.

[XXXNoahXXX]

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Give me a scenario where this girl will be at some mega-advantage with these worldly linguistic skills.

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Ummm when applying to any type of job at any level of experience or schooling?


Everything from McDonald's to law firms would love to have you be able to speak Spanish.