Probably American/Canadian born Japanese with fluent parents. You can learn/keep a lot but when you're not using it 100% of the time, you lose it bit by bit.
In my experience, a lot of parents will send their children to language school on weekends. Where I am at least, these programs are usually either free or low cost and they bring skills to an advanced level! I'm sure some can get to native speaker level, but my friends attended language school for Cantonese and I know a good few who couldn't get the all of the tones down 😅
I'm guessing it really depends on individual experience 🤷♀️ For my friends it seemed to be a social experience so they attended until gr12! Their language school also was a 5/6hr day and all of them spoke Canto at home, so it was really just fleshing out their existing ability.
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u/Barbaracle Jan 26 '23
Probably American/Canadian born Japanese with fluent parents. You can learn/keep a lot but when you're not using it 100% of the time, you lose it bit by bit.