In Canada, most kids learn French up until the 6th grade. Since I am from a small town, there was no French offered in our school after that. So I know basic words and basic sentences. Enough to get by I guess! I was sick in France last year and between my husband and I we were able to tell a pharmacist it was my throat, my nose, and asked how much the medicine (cough drops) would cost. But putting together sentences beyond that is tough!
Another thing that helps up here is that it's the law that all products have French wording on them as well. So seeing the same words on the same products for my whole life really engrains those words in my head! I can tell you what almost anything is in French, but I can't tell you about it in a sentence lol!
My neice is in a French immersion school, so everything is in French, and she is doing great! However, I had a few cousins in French immersion as well, and their English skills were REALLY lacking. They could spell French words perfectly, but not simple English words. So I think it's great if there is equal emphasis on BOTH languages, or maybe even more on the language most used at home and in business (in the case here, English).
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