[quote=UCGal]Russ – that is awesome that your boys are bilingual. It will serve them well.

I’m starting with Rosetta stone for the summer, but their middle school has a foreign language requirement – and I’ve got them in Spanish. I’m hoping they are reasonably fluent by the time they get out of high school. The goal is to have them pass the IB advanced 2nd language test.[/quote]

As I said before, they have to watch half their TV hours in Spanish( library, borrowed or purchased videos only, no cable)….we let them watch a lot because of that, but it’s worth it. I think they can read because of the TV watching as much as anything else, though the year and a half of dual language classes helped. Movies they choose and books or magazines that they like really compliment one another. Not sure how much our kids have been using English Subtitles on the TV , but maybe that is not a bad thing to do at first as long as they are in front of a movie with Spanish Audio. It’s a chore to the kids to do that. At first they probably won’t want to do it but it’s huge. None of them fight it anymore.