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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]14:21, there's a slew of them. Hope is big, in both gaithersburg and college park. We used Howard county chinese school's bilingual program, and then found a teacher independently. Perhaps the confucius institute at the University of Maryland could suggest a private teacher. Find some chinese parents and ask where their kids go. :)  Local chinese adoptive parent groups often organize classes or find teachers.

This local association of chinese schools lists a lot, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Metropolitan_Association_of_Chinese_Schools

Northern Virginia Chinese School and Experimental Chinese School are both in northern va. These school are volunteer run so you sometimes have to try more than one method of approach. You'd want to ask if they have any classes for children where chinese is not spoken in the home, and confirm they teach mandarin with simplified characters. Most do, but there's a few others who teach other dialects or with traditional characters.

22:14, I disagree. Grade school kids of chinese speaking parents I know can't even respond fluently to their teachers in chinese. Our teacher said the local native engligh speaking kids in the DC immersion programs are more fluent. It's mostly understanding things they answer in english, and basic sentences of household subjects. ("yes, I want water.") They have to work incredibly hard to be fluent. Now my kid would have to work even harder but those american born chinese kids are not fluent as children. Not even close. Since many of then attend weekend chinese school I guess they see if they have to put in so much parent-mandated work, they might as well get school credit for it! Maybe there are some chinese immigrant kids who got fluent before they moved here - it's be MUCH easier for them - they are the only ones that would find it an easy A.[/quote]

I'm the OP. I have to disagree with your last paragraph. When my DC was in the immersion program, he would come home and say that the teacher spent a lot of time speaking in mandarin to the native speakers. They would have conversations and laugh together. My DC had no idea what they were saying and neither did the other non-native speakers. The parents were angry, as you can imagine.[/quote]

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