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Thread: How long does it take to become fluent in speaking, reading and writing Chinese?
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[quote=GUEST19376,372227]Congrats on everyone learning. I myself decided (age 35) that mandarin was just going to be too difficult a challenge for me. (Became 100% pass-for-a-native fluent in german in my 20s, and chose the next (in my 30s) to be russian instead of more useful mandarin because I just didn't think I could cope with the difficulties of mandarin. Take my hat off to all of you learning it!!! (Not that the russian is going well - wish I had more time). However, in Australia mandarin is really important and I REALLY want my child (not yet born) to grow up from birth trilingual in english, german and mandarin. I can do the german & english but need help with the mandarin since I'm caucasian & have no chinese friends or family. Does anyone have any ideas to share about how to teach / bring up a baby / toddler / child in an english -speaking country & family, with no family contacts speaking mandarin, to be fluent in mandarin? I'll do what it takes - but would REALLY welcome ideas. This is very important to me. As Guestroc notes above, it'll be a lot easier for the child to learn as a child than to go through the struggle of learnng it as an adult. Thanks :) [/quote]
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