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kmart
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Message 49 of 49

01 June 2011 at 12:49pm | IP Logged

s_allard wrote:

I couldn't help quoting the article when the journalist asks the researcher if she is bilingual:

"Q. Are you bilingual?

A. Well, I have fully bilingual grandchildren because my daughter married a Frenchman. When my daughter announced her engagement to her French boyfriend, we were a little surprised. It’s always astonishing when your child announces she’s getting married. She said, “But Mom, it’ll be fine, our children will be bilingual!”"

Now, why is the researcher not bilingual? It just never happened or was it too late?

Maybe she could have been, if she'd moved into her daughter and son-in-law's house and communicated constantly with him in French?

But as she wanted her daughter's marriage to last, she didn't...

;-)

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