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[quote=Anonymous]When we moved to DC, our DS was 2 and DD wasn't born yet. When we realized there were so many dual language public schools, we asked ourselves which language would make our kid stand out, and is widely used in the world but not as common to learn in a US school. Mandarin was the obvious choice, but to be clear DS is 20 now and DD is 17, so there were even fewer Mandarin immersion schools then than now. But even now, compared to Spanish and French there are still a small % of Mandarin schools even though the #s keep growing all the time. So for us, it was a combo of the US relationships with countries that speak the language from a job possibilities POV, and also how common or uncommon it is to meet Americans who speak the language. Mandarin was the obvious choice, but Arabic would have been a close 2nd given how much the Federal gov't and international business love Americans who can speak Arabic fluently or close to it. And read and write.[/quote]
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