@cinammon1212 Thanks. The integrated humanities program sounds very interesting. German and French would just be a means to maintain or slightly improve for my son; he speaks both, having attended public schools abroad in those countries. Sounds like his foreign language plate would be pretty full with 1-2 years of German and 2-3 of French (what he would need, respectively, to maintain near fluency or be totally fluent).
The next question is if my son’s modest German needs justifies targeting boarding schools with German. Related to this question would be that of starting a new language at a school not offering German. The leading candidate here would be Arabic, but what
I am hearing is that, while 5 years total of a language might work in boarding school, 6 is not going to fly. (With Arabic, it would need to be 4 years and another 2 for French).
Of course, summer programs can enter the mix. The bottom line is — as several comments on this thread have stated — fluency ain’t easy. But it is relatively easy to maintain if you have it, especially if you have obtained it as a kid (when it is far easier to obtain, of course).
So a bit of juggling is in order to make sure he doesn’t lose what he has while looking into other opportunities, new languages and otherwise, for personal and academic growth…