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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My summary of the Chinese was it [b]was exposure to the fact that other languages exist[/b] rather an actual education in speaking it.  They are in high school now and mostly remember watching Teletubby videos in Chinese.  When they had Spanish originally it was a bit better.  [/quote]

I posted earlier that my kid hated Chinese at CGES.

I do agree your statement that I bolded. And the irony of that my statement is that, DUH, all you have to do is go out in any neighborhood in the RM cluster, including the neighborhoods that feed into CGES to realize that foreign languages exist. We would hear Russian, Chinese and Spanish regularly at the park.  I still think that learning numbers & colors would have been better than the videos. At my kid's pre-school, they had a once or twice weekly Chinese "class"  (where the instructor sang songs, did the core words, re-incorporated the words back into the song, etc.) and the kids were interacting and responding and all loving it. But then my same child hated CGES Chinese.  (I got to observe one day at pre-school and it was fascinating how much they were learning at 4 years old.)

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Its a good reminder that some things that seem great on paper are not that important in reality.[/quote]

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