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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have you heard the English spoken by any of these Chinese students who learned English in a one-way immersion setting? I have, and without exception, it has always been heavily accented (sometimes impossible to understand) and grammatically incorrect. [b]And English isn't a level 4 language[/b].[/quote]

Considering it's a designation by the FSI (Foreign Service Institute) of the U.S. State Department, that's not exactly surprising.  Our government expects its own employees to speak English, Sherlock.   :roll:

For non-speakers of English, it's actually a very complex language being based 60% on Germanic languages and 40% on Latin-based languages.  It's not the only hard language to learn, but like Russian and Mandarin it is one of the hardest.

https://www.oxford-royale.co.uk/articles/learning-english-hard.html

And yet people do it.

Given the enormous advantages and resources the YY kids have,[b] they're easily going to be the best Chinese speakers in the city[/b], perhaps the region, and they are going to do that without the Cantonese snowflakes.
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That's not saying much.  They will definitely NOT be the best Chinese speakers in the region.[/quote]

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