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Reply to " Yu Ying - Do/Can Non-Native Kids Actually SPEAK Chinese?"
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[quote=Anonymous]Since when do simple statements of fact constitute "animosity" toward YY on this thread, or any other. It's true that few YY parents mind if the kids don't get far beyond basic utterances in Chinese. Any adult native speaker can easily determine this by talking to the kids and parents. It's a different story in Chinese public immersion programs in US cities where lotteries for native speakers exist (mostly in traditional public schools), and programs cater to both native and non-native speakers. I have a cousin (not a native speaker) who sends his children to such a program in Northern Cal. The family has to work hard to meet standards for spoken Chinese in the school, such as enrolling the kids in a mandatory, free 5-week summer immersion camp the school runs for kids who aren't meeting their high standards for speaking (serving almost all the students who don't speak the language at home). Not so at YY, and the parents like it that way. [/quote]
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