[mware]

She has had a Chinese nanny since she was 18 months old. Best time to teach a foreign language while they are young. They say she speaks an almost perfect Mandarin.

Not bad for a 5 year old.

[Liz]

Chinese is a difficult language......not to mention all the dialects in that huge country.

Could be wrong, but I think Mandarin is the dialect of diplomacy.

[null and void]

Best time to teach a foreign language while they are young.

Yep. We usually wait until high school or college.

If our education system had been imposed on us by a foreign power, we would have regarded it as an act of war.