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Georgia’s Pre-K program wants to teach all its students mandarin Chinese. It is piloting mandarin classes in three schools. Funding for the Chinese lessons comes from the Kennesaw University’s Confucious Institute. Officials call it a ground breaking program that exposes young children to...

... her father. Many articles on the papers today speak about language proficiency and mainly highlighted Mandarin. I don't really wanna share my opinions about it, but just feel that we should at least speak understandable Mandarin/ Chinese so that we can communicate with the elderly. Sometimes, I blame myself for not being fluent in hokkien, otherwise I can connect ...

... has been a lot of discussion in Singapore recently about how the Chinese language (Mandarin, basically) should be taught in schools. It was sparked two weeks ago ... be my enforced second language? I was wondering about whether I would want my kids (if I have them) to be able to speak Chinese fluently. And I came to the conclusion that it’s more important to me that they understand and are able ...

... Clarissa Oon & Cai Haoxiang CHINESE language teachers should pull out all the stops to make ... past that it was possible to master two languages equally well. As a result, Chinese lessons in the old days were pitched at too difficult a level ... speaks to his daughter in English and he speaks to the daughter in Mandarin. So the daughter had an option (which language to use). English is an easier ...

... teachers but the system (as with most things in the world). I am still very much hopeless in Mandarin not because I hated the subject in school, but I just really wasn’t able to get much practice ... people who speak predominantly Chinese. Damn post-colonial hangups. b) My “cheena ... ge(2) to banter in Mandarin with them. I found that the only time I felt my Chinese improving in recent years ...

... complete crap. What's the big deal? If your Chinese sucks, work on it. If you can't speak Mandarin, watch Mandarin ... Singapore doesn't need people like you. But now they're going to teach Chinese in English! This is beyond ridiculous. If the kids come from English-speaking ... range of free-to-air educational shows in Mandarin on Channel 8. Or you can get your kid addicted to Channel ...

... language from their kids are doing it not for their kids but more for their own face. I mean, why is that these parents can speak Mandarin to their colleagues but have to speak English to their kids? It's all about ... (eh, maybe writing is a bit difficult, but reading is not). We are Chinese so what is so shameful about speaking Mandarin? Let's be democratic to the languages too, English & ...

... restaurant either (although if we had been in a Mexican restaurant, I'd probably been able to understand more of what was being said than I was at this Chinese restaurant). Here's the thing though: you can get a lot through tone, ... order in. I have to admit that I enjoyed this brief moment of passing as Chinese--I mean passing as a fluent Mandarin speaker. Like someone who could read ...

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... ? And 5000 years of culture, not interesting enough for Singaporeans? Though I hate to say this, but somehow in Singapore, Chinese is deemed as the second class language, and English is somehow more atas. --" Hence, ... 39;t even want to speak to their children in mandarin, thinking that English is more important, how can we expect our children to embrace the Chinese language? Even my brother is ...