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[quote=Anonymous][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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The number of Spanish immersion schools outnumber the Mandarin one, 10?, 20? To 1.  So there you have it.  Spanish is considerably more popular (deemed useful to know by parents) than Mandarin.  Don't understand all this quibbling about the fact that the one Chinese immersion school is popular with some...[/quote]

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