[NorthMountain]

No kidding ...

Dad wasn’t a “teacher” at the time. (He much later taught some engineering courses at the MS/PhD level).

He also wasn’t technically a veteran, on account of still being active duty.

Regardless, I hit first grade already knowing how to read.

You can teach a four year old ANY language, provided you know it. That foreign language is “domestic” somewhere ... (Latin is hard??? Ineptias! Roman children learned it!)

[hanamizu]

You can teach a four year old ANY language, provided you know it.

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Almost bizarrely we usually teach kids a foreign language right about the time they start losing the ability to learn languages, i.e. late junior high or high school. On top of that they insist you have to be a very good student to learn a foreign language. I used to tell my students, even a retarded Mexican kid will learn Spanish better than they likely will.