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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you speak Chinese at home?  Some of us pass on "immersion" at YY (not entering the lottery), but speak dialects and teach characters at home. Our kids attend rigorous heritage language schools in MoCo on weekends (normally several hours on a Sat or Sun afternoon, including calligraphy class). There are four [b]or five native-speaking DC families in our particular weekend program, none at YY.[/b] Our kids all speak Chinese well, albeit slangy Chinese...

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this is not true at all. There are two in our class of 18 alone! More in the school overall obviously. [/quote]

I belive PP meant none of the families in her heritage program attend YY.[/quote]

Well obviously they would not feel the need to go to a Saturday school when they're in the program Monday-Friday. I also send my child to a Saturday language school to learn both culture and language. If our heritage language was offered as an immersion school I would never waste my time bothering with our Saturday school either.  I think the only benefit to a weekend heritage program is that very few if any outsiders attend. This means that there is a heavy-duty cultural aspect that may be de-emphasized in immersion schools.  Otherwise I would prefer that my children attend a free charter school that does a wonderful job teaching my kids our heritage language. PP is either bitter or foolish. [/quote]

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