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[quote=Anonymous]I am a native Mandarin speaker and my DC is raised bilingual in Mandarin/English. I won't send my DC to YY and never put it on the lottery list.

If I want language immersion I try my luck with Spanish. If most YY parents with no Mandarin background are happy with their kids' Mandarin I'd say let it be. Mandarin/Chinese is far more difficult than Spanish for English speakers. You can't just rely on the school to achieve fluency.  Even YY kids learn "broken" Mandarin that is still better than none.

And I will never tell YY or any other family with no Chinese background that their or their kids' Mandarin suck. Language learning is a long and continuing process. It is even more so for Chinese since it is a relatively isolated group of languages (yes, Mandarin is a language and Chinese is a group of languages based on one written system) that you just can't draw similarity from some other language groups you already knew. Stick with it for another ten years and I am sure any child can be fluent. [/quote]

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