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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  [No it's not.  And, every region in China has a variation in tones anyway, so they can barely understand each other.  [b]I learned Chinese as an adult, lived there for years, and was able to communicate with the natives just fine.  It was clear that I wasn't a native speaker, but who cares if you're understood.[/b]  [b]If your child is highly motivated to learn Chinese, rather than have it forced on him, then he can be as good as Canadian Da Shan, who sounds like a native. [/b] His parents didn't send him to immersion.  [/quote]

THIS.  This whole fascination with US kids being immersed in [i]Chinese [/i] in particular is interesting.  I deal with the Chinese regarding economic and business issues (and people from many other countries) extensively, and frankly, English and French are the languages of commerce  and will be for [i]quite [/i]a while (unless something incredibly drastic happens -- something that [u]totally [/u]upends the world economy), and most of them understand at least one of those two languages without need for interpreters.  Just my opinion and NO, I am not "euro-centric."  I would think that immersion in Spanish would be more [u]generally [/u]useful.

(I'm not addressing other reasons why parents might want to have their kids immersed in Chinese in particular -- only adressing theeffectiveness of doing so if its to have them prepared to somehow be competitive with the Chinese).

Anecdotal? yes.  But this is a messageboard lol
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