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| Only comments I would add is that if there are many other 'foreign' children at the school, or in the area in which the child lives, it will be more difficult from the point of view that the child will hear other languages too.
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...Also, in a class with other people who speak german as a second language, the general standards may be lower. When we first came here my brother, then ten, was in a class where noone spoke perfect german, so there was little incentive to speak it perfectly since he fit in better speaking it as everyone else did.
On the other hand, schools in the state system with a lot of foreigners often have extra german tutoring programs for those who need to catch up- again this was the case with my brother, he had daily german lessons in a small group with a few others.