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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks pp. Writing in Chinese is indeed very difficult and most kids who only do weekend Chinese school cannot really write. [/quote] That's true, but not that big a deal for a bilingual child. If your parents are native speakers, like mine, you learn tones from them really young, which is half the battle with any dialect of Chinese. I only knew a few characters when I did a year abroad in college, in China, to focus on learning characters. Learning to write in Chinese is merely time consuming - if you speak without much of an accent, you can learn more characters at any point in your life. Chinese parents who speak other dialects at home (e.g. Cantonese, Hakka, Fujian, Shang'hai-ese, do tend to want their kids to learn Mandarin these days, not just in MoCo of course, but in Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, Hong Kong etc. [/quote]
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