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[quote=Anonymous]PP here who noted dearth of native speakers--when the teacher sent home Chinese names for kids I noticed 4-5 children in the class already had character names. However, they could be of Korean or Japanese descent, which can use mandarin characters in their names. My impression is that there are maybe 2-3 kids in my DCs PK class who have some prior exposure (nanny, grandparent maybe speaking halting Chinese from one parent who is barely proficient but certainly not fluent (our case)) but they don't speak it fluently or have a parent who is a native speaker. Hoping that the unified lottery actually helps this a lot and that YuYing eventually joins, because that will mean that parents who really care about Mandarin will put the school first, something they're unable to do now other than signal by getting up to wait in the middle of the night, but the Chinese language speaking families may not be as familiar with the (crazy) system that is the DC lottery. [/quote]
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