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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you can't, or won't, support Mandarin outside school, why bother?  Chinese is much more difficult to learn than the other AP languages, even for the children of native speakers.  It's not uncommon for Walls and J-R AP Chinese students to score low, 2s, 3s.  
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Because some families don’t need fluency and want to expose their kid to another language.

Your post reeks of privilege and entitlement and condescending.  Get off your high horse FFS[/quote].  No, the post is grounded and pratical, stating an inconvenient truth. If language exposure is what you’re after for your mono-lingual American family, Spanish, obviously. Chinese demands unusual committment to pay off. No point in pretending otherwise.[/quote]

No it’s not.  There are many people who are not fluent in Chinese but can communicate and understand basics and have a conversation.  In fact, that’s the overwhelming majority of non-native speakers.

In fact, lots of kids of even native families are not ever fluent and maybe can speak basic mandarin.  Their understanding is more extensive though.

To say that no one should take mandarin unless they are fully committed to what?  Fluency?  That is totally wrong.[/quote]

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