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So are you going again this yr?  Did the trip help your kid's Mandarin?  Attend Mandarin school?[/quote]

This year, yes, but that's it.  Trip and immersion program helped a lot, definitely, opened our eyes to how our kid had little experience speaking Chinese to peers outside class.  YY kids speak English to one another.  In CHina,, we met groups from other immersion schools where the kids mostly speak Chinese.

We supplement a great deal, but we're planning to move from Capitol Hill partly to switch to WIS or partial immersion in MoCo.  
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Thanks!  We're happy with the Chinese DS is learning at YY and more importantly, DS loves the school.  His classmates are all really nice kids and we like it that it's very diverse.  The Mandarin is a bonus for us.  We'll be going to China in the summers for the foreseeable future and DS will be interning there when he gets older so we're not particularly worried about whether DS speaks Chinese to his classmates.  I actually don't think it's realistic to expect this from little kids simply b/c they are in an immersion program when the wider culture speaks English.  My bilingual nephews will only speak English when they are in the US.

We don't supplement at all but DS's tones are perfect and more importantly, he's learning his characters which is much harder to learn than simply speaking Chinese which at this young age comes easily.

Good luck on your move![/quote]

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