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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For Asia, Japan, Korea, or Singapore.[/quote]

You do realize they don’t speak Mandarin there, right? [/quote]

DP, and I live in Singapore.  Mandarin is WIDELY spoken here: it's the second language, after English.  I'm American and don't speak Mandarin, but I hear it every day.  Outside, shopping, at hawker centers, overhearing my Singaporean colleagues chatting in Mandarin amongst themselves: everywhere.  Even "Singlish", a common local vernacular, is English modeled on Mandarin sentence structures, with Mandarin words woven in.

If OP's child wanted to speak Mandarin in Singapore, he could easily do it every day with people who are native speakers, on all levels of society.

Oh, and the majority of Singaporeans do NOT sound like the characters on Crazy Rich Asians.  I think that was source of your misunderstanding, PP.   Crazy Rich Asians...is not real.  [/quote]

I was just going to suggest Singapore.

If you go to HK or Shanghai the government will install spyware on your electronics.  I guess you just continue to use them while in China, but then you will need to throw them out when you leave.  Probably better to buy some new stuff when you arrive so it doesn't have any of your personal stuff on it.[/quote]

Op here. Unfortunately dc isn’t particularly interested in the partner program available through his university in Singapore, but I’ll keep that in mind. He’s not going to Asia specifically for language instruction but certainly it would be ideal if he had chances to use the years of Mandarin under his belt.

Yes, we know about the monitoring issue and dc wouldn’t post or say anything controversial. FWIW the US does its share of monitoring too and it’s fairly easy for them to justify access to your private conversations through big tech. But you make a good point, we’d probably get him new devices to use only while he’s there. [/quote]

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