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Originally Posted by ryuurui
I am off to count down the second till my post gets bombed.
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You're hilarious...
I basically agree with Ryuurui; kids will soak it up PROVIDED they keep a good mindset. Also, if your husband at least spoke it once in a while at home, their brains have absorbed at least "hearing" it as babies/children. I strongly feel that is more the 75% of the concern, if any.
While I was born in Japan, we came to the States when dad was discharged from the US Army (he's a Nisei); I was about four then. Since I was with my mom (who saw B-29s overhead) most of the day, I spoke children's Japanese til I was five. When I entered public school, it became all English by the time I was in 1st grade. Japanese language became a foreign language very quickly. However, when I went back to Japan for a couple of years when I was 19, I was able to pick it up better than I thought since I had heard Japanese at my most impressionable youth.
Don't worry about your kids but school will be a challenge, I feel. It is very different. Be aware of bullying. Concentrate on your own language skills as best you can.
Good luck!