(Hi Brian!)
I enrolled my son Ezekiel in a Mandarin immersion program in San
Francisco when he entered first grade this past year. My reasoning
was not quite what Brian mentioned in terms of avoiding parental
comprehension because I thought it would be a good opportunity for me
to learn the language with him, which I am doing. Mostly I felt that
it would be easier for him to pick up one of the more
conventionally-taught-around-here languages later, but that the
conjunction of opportunity and willpower for approaching Chinese might
be lacking later.
-Jeremy
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 10:34:02AM -0700, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> If I had kids today, I'd try to get them enrolled in the Chinese immersion
> schools here in San Francisco, or perhaps hire a Chinese tutor. How cool
> would it have been, as a kid, to know a language your parents don't know,
> but your friends do? That would have been awesome. The idea of kids
> talking chinese to each other to avoid their parents
> snooping/overhearing... Anyway, I feel like it will be a more valuable
> second language than Spanish, which is what they encourage the most in
> California schools; even then, picking up Spanish later in life is going to
> be easier than picking up Chinese. Either that or Arabic....
--
jeremy bornstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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