Article: At this school second language gets to go first ; L'Ecole Francaise du Maine helps kids from preschool to third grade learn French by immersing them in it.

TESS NACELEWICZ Staff Writer
Portland Press Herald (Maine)
09-07-2005
At this school second language gets to go first ; L'Ecole Francaise du Maine helps kids from preschool to third grade learn French by immersing them in it.
Byline: TESS NACELEWICZ Staff Writer
Edition: Final
Section: Local & State

FREEPORT --

Eight-year-old Anna Bilodeau is so fluent in French that she placed third this spring in a national contest for students learning the language. Just a few years ago, Anna didn't understand a word of French. She grew up speaking English because that's what her parents speak.

But then they enrolled her as a kindergartner at L'Ecole Francaise du Maine - The French School of Maine. It ...

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