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Reply to " Yu Ying - Do/Can Non-Native Kids Actually SPEAK Chinese?"
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[quote=Anonymous]In this year's 5th grade (so mostly kids who had one year of full immersion in PK4 but did not have the PK3 now offered), I'd say 5-10% speak well and another 10-15% speak reasonably well. Definitely no more than a quarter of the class falls into those two categories -- and many, but certainly not all, of those kids have a Mandarin-speaking parent. I'd say another quarter of the class is unable to converse beyond the level you describe. The "middle 50%" can get the gist of what is being said a fair amount of the time, and usually can respond appropriately if awkwardly (like someone who is currently at the end of their second year of studying a language in college; maybe the beginning of their third year). [/quote]
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