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[quote=Anonymous]If you visit any weekend foreign language school (Chinese, Arabic, Urdu, etc.) in the U.S. attended by children of mostly native born parents (and even foreign born kids) from whichever country, the kids are speaking English in the playground, prefer to speak English, and will only speak whatever is the native language of their parents if they are prompted even if they are bilingual or nearly so in both languages.  It's called assimilation.

Canada is a bilingual country with two official languages...

I have no problem with YY not giving preference to Chinese speakers (not many Mandarin speakers in DC anyway).  The program has worked great for my DC in preK and yes, he has gone from knowing no Mandarin at all to being able to have conversations in Mandarin.  The kids speak Mandarin in the classrooms to each other where Mandarin is required but not the playground, pretty amazing considering most have had no exposure at all prior to school.

His accent is "good" according to my native born Mandarin speaking babysitters and friends from China.  He will never sound like a native but that is not expected since he is a foreigner.

We love the principal, administration and teachers.  All hard working who genuinely care about the kids.  No complaints at all.  [/quote]

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