Very cool. Well done.

My first partner was a Tejano and taught ESL to a mixture of Latino and Asian kids from several language groups. He spoke Spanish with the Latino kids a lot.

One day he told me that the Asian kids were learning both English and Spanish. They didn't know that they were supposed to be learning only English. "Colors." ¡Si! ¡Colores!

My second was Malaysian Chinese. He spoke Cantonese at home. In kindergarten (!) the kids began learning

* Mandarin

* Malay

* English

at the same time. And they thought nothing of it. Kindergarten.

When we went to Malaysia, whose language he had not spoken in many years, he talked to the taxi driver in Malay like a native speaker. He spoke six languages, four of them Chinese dialects (Hakka and Hokkien were the others; his mother was Hakka) and thought nothing of it.