My take away is basically:
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Language schools don’t work… your kids will hate it…
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Immersion is good… like maybe move to your ancestor’s country… (no thanks fam, I don’t like this)
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Only speak your heritage language to your children… And you need to know enough to fully express yourself so you don’t revert back to English (or whatever your new country’s language is)
Yeah… Cantonese and Mandarin might die with me… I don’t even know it enough to be teaching my (future) children… too much emotional trauma from my parents 😭
Get them into playing video games in chinese. Thats how most of the bilingual kids/young adults i know in colombia learned.
Give them a dictionary and let them download any games but tell them they have to be in whatever your target language is.