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[quote=Anonymous]To dear parents who are insanely hoping their DC to learn Mandarin, Do you know how much frustration your DC will face? Say if your DC put enough effort to speak Mandarin fluently, can they communicate with Chinese in NYC Chinatown? No! Most of them speak Cantonese or other dialects. Can they read Chinese newspaper? No, newspapers are written in Traditional characters in US. I bet your DC have already had hard time learning Simplified characters. If your DC can excel all Cantonese/Mandarin/Traditional/Simplified, do you really want them to interact with real Chinese people in China in their job? Play with Chinese type of politics? Say you just want to pass the Chinese tradition/culture from one generation to the next, what is the possibility that your DC will pass their Chinese to the next generation? [/quote]
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