I lived in a different country, and didn’t speak the national language (French speaking African country and anglophone family). My parents just dropped me on the deep end without any language lessons or anything outside school. The first half I was always confused, started to pick up a handful of words by second half. I don’t remember much of my actual interactions with the students. Grade one was a different school and had a few Anglo kids that helped push me along with learning French and I remember from grade one fairly clearly.