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[tsukikage]

They're opening a German immersion school in the Twin Cities next year. 13 years too late.
I'm literally crying.

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[conuly]

Too late for you, you mean?

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

[elyse-navidad.livejournal.com]

I'm mad at my parents for something kind've related to that. Milwaukee Public Schools has four different immersion schools. 3 elementaries(Spanish, German and French) and 1 big middle school/high school that the little kids feed into or kids who are new to language can go to it.

When I was little my parents argued over which one to send me to(One wanted German and one wanted Spanish) so they ended up not sending me so I had to start in the language program in middle school at the middle/high school that the others feed into!

Silly parents.

Thats good that they're doing it for future kids though. Immersion programs are great.

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

See, my mom was born and raised in Germany, I deeply "regret" (how can you regret something that you had no control over? easy, if you're me) my mom not making a greater effort to raise be to be bilingual. My parents tried at first, then gave up (partly because my dad's German was nil).
Having had a German immersion program in the area when I was young enough to become a native speaker would have been... Yeah.

[elyse-navidad.livejournal.com]

Hmmm thats interesting. One of my friends who went through the german immersion program's mother is from germany.