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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Was your niece a legacy?  She sounds very talented, but that sometimes can help as well.  Congratulations in any case.[/quote]No legacy, no money, no melanin.  Talent only.  It does help sometimes.[/quote]

So she started Hope Chinese School at age 7 as a white kid?  Because at age  7, she alrady had a passion for the Chinese language? That is remarkable.  [/quote]Many children develop interest in exposure to different things.  Some may gravitate to basketball, others to math.  Why do you find it unusual that young children can be curious and develope interest that carry on into young adulthood?  Mozart started composing at the age of five because he was exposed and, apparently, had a knack for it.  [b]Why do you see fostering interest in youth unusual[/b]?[/quote]

sounds like someone fostered the interest in the kid. [not that there's anything wrong with that].  [/quote]

Looks like the trolls have hit this thread. But FWIW, my own DC was fluent in two languages by age 7 and would enthusiastically tell you about all the other languages he wanted to study soon, which we didn't provide because they were unusual and we didn't know where to get instruction. Doubt he's headed to Princeton. But an interest in languages can certainly happen on its own.[/quote]

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