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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A: Our kid's Chinese is great!

B: It's not. It sucks. My kids and I laugh about it.

A: Our neighbor is Chinese and she said it's excellent.

B: I lied about that.

A: But she gets A's and the teacher says she's doing fine!

B: The teacher lied.

A: The tutor says her tones are good.

B: Yeah, they lied, too.

A: ...

B: We're polite that way.[/quote]

A (in Mandarin):  Hey, kiddo, hey neighbor, how are things going for you at YY these days?  What grade are you in this year?

B (in Mandarin): I am good.

A:  I heard you went on a trip to China recently with your whole class. What did you see there?  What did you do?

B: We went to China.

A: Did you visit the Forbidden City and the Terracotta Army? Did you ride on trains, take boats, take hikes, eat out, stay with a host family?

B:  We ate apples.

A:  Wow, what a fantastic trip you must have had.  How wonderful for you. Your Chinese is so good now.

B:  Thank you.  [/quote]

The first one is very funny. The second one sounds like my oldest son in English when adults talk to him :P[/quote]

Yea, but your kid can say what he wants in English, when he feels like it. YY students are actually taught a lot of Chinese words they can't use because they don't practice speaking much. My bilingual first grader does no better than I do in speaking to YY kids. [/quote]

He can say what he wants in Chinese, too. He just hates talking to adults and sounds stilted and strange in any language. He is awkward, and so was his host brother who came from China to visit us. I'm happy that my son and his host brother are learning, even if they are both awkward and weird. I don't judge people's children who don't play competitive level sports like mine do, or play instruments, or aren't handsome, or whatever other measurements people have in their heads. Live and let live.[/quote]

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