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[quote=Anonymous]I did activities at the CBS in the 70s and 80s, after school and during summers, martial arts, lion dance etc. Right, we only spoke Cantonese there. Learned Mandarin in college -easiest class. Also went to a Chinese school in NJ to learn brush strokes.

Haven't kept up with characters, my own fault. But still speak Cantonese with family enroll kids in the progressive Cantonese School of Greater Washington (in Rockville). There's a YY child in my oldest kid's class there who's been pointed out to me as a "native speaker" by YY parents in my neighborhood many times. Sweet kid can barely get a coherent sentence out in Cantonese, but does speak some of that formal YY Mandarin.

My California cousins have it made with their public Chinese immersion programs. Parents and admins knock themselves out to incentivize native speakers to come. We went to an open house where the principal did a presentation in Cantonese, Mandarin and English, and wrote on the board in traditional characters, simplified characters, and English to keep everybody there on board. Handouts were the same. At YY, you hear"we teach the families how to celebrate Chinese holidays." But, apparently, the parents are pretty happy so best to avoid these threads.[/quote]

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