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[quote=Anonymous]Not a former YY parent, but what "baffles" me is the attitude of YY parents.

We are Asian immigrants who had to study Mandarin from a young age through tertiary education. We live near half a dozen YY families (none with any connection to Chinese culture that we know of). The parents talk about how well the children speak Mandarin. They also talk about the children getting into ivy league schools and elite colleges one day, on the strength of their Mandarin.

We can hardly understand what the YY students say in Mandarin and they can hardly understand us. This is true no matter how slowly we speak, how old the children are, and how much we dumb the conversation down!

I get that you guys do not have strong neighborhood schools and want a 2nd language. The rest I do not get. If you are going to have your children learn a language in an "immersion setting," why not do it properly? If you are not going to do it properly, why boast about it? I have learned to avoid YY families because the issues about conversation are so awkward.  No more to say on the subject. [/quote]

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