My son spent a year in Chile as a kindergartener with us while my husband was on sabbatical; at that time his pronunciation of Spanish words was like a native. Unfortunately, when we got back to the States he didn't get back to Spanish until he was in high school and had developed his father's tin ear for foreign language sounds. You don't use it (or hear it), you lose it; maybe in So Cal, with Spanish names all around, he wouldn't have lost it.
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