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Bilingual Learning: The benefit of a bilingual education (Part 1)
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Jan 22, 2013
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Bilingual Learning: The benefit of a bilingual education (Part 1)
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Bilingual immersion programs have been growing exponentially in California. You can find a public school that teach Spanish, German, French and even Hmong. For the first of our three-part series on language immersion, KPCC's Deepa Fernandes, takes you on a tour of some of Southern California's bilingual schools.