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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you use any childcare? We hire only nannies/sitters who are willing to only speak the language we want our kids to speak. They are not allowed to speak English. It has worked really well but [b]we start from infancy[/b]. [/quote] I think that this is key. All the people who say, just speak Chinese to her are forgetting that the kid is 4. While her brain is definitely still plastic and it will be easy for her to learn a new language, she is also old enough to resist, so OP needs to balance being firm with turning this into a huge fight with the end result being that the kid just refusing to speak Chinese. It is likely that even if she refuses to speak, she will learn to understand a lot by hearing you speak to her. Then, the trick would be to get her into situations where she's motivated to speak Chinese--Chinese school where other kids are actually enjoying themselves, play group where all of the kids speak Chinese, etc...[/quote]
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