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Reply to " Yu Ying - Do/Can Non-Native Kids Actually SPEAK Chinese?"
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[quote=Anonymous]You can't knock down YY's barriers to good Mandarin by adding a year of PreS3 immersion. Tiny tots pick up languages easily, and lose them almost as easily. As has been explained, few non native-speaking families are going to bother putting out to ensure that kids speak well without any real competition in the Chinese program, strong supports (after-care immersion, full immersion summer camps) and, most importantly, any standards for speaking. The addition of PreS3 immersion is bandaid treatment, a spoonful of Kool-Aid. Better than nothing, but not much.[/quote]
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