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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do people bother with these redundant YY threads?  The issue of how well YY students speak Chinese has been hashed out innumerable times on DCUM.  Same old story.  The vast majority of YY parents are happy with the (basic) Chinese taught at the school. They don't want competition from native speakers or other pressure to up their game. [b]They plan for the kids to live and work in China as adults, where they will learn to speak fluently.  [/b]

YY and DCI parents who want the kids to speak good Chinese as children and teens need to take matters into their own hands.  This means devoting a hell of a lot of work and money to the project.

End of story.[/quote]

huh? How on earth can any parent say this with any degree of certainty? What if the kids themselves prefer to remain in their home country where all their friends and family are located?

It's quite a big deal to move to a foreign country where you speak the language only so so and don't know anybody. [/quote]

+1.  Yes, that's a helluva expectation to place on a child.  Especially because the country in question is China (Communist and on the other side of the world), and not, say, Spain or France.[/quote]

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