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Tue 01 Jan 2011Living a foreign language
Total immersion among native speakers is the best way to learn a language, but parents need to choose wisely before sending teens off for long stretches abroad, writes SHEILA WAYMAN
NOBODY PRETENDS it is easy for an Irish teenager plonked in a boarding school in a foreign country where nobody is speaking English. Tears and homesickness are to be expected as they struggle to find their tongue in a language which they write much more than they speak back home.
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