First day of Chinese school

Today is Haley's first day of Chinese school. The school teaches traditional Chinese characters and offers both Mandarin and Cantonese classes. The class is only one hour on Saturday morning. There is only 7 more classes left for this school year before summer. We are still debating to enroll her into Mandarin or Cantonese pre-K class. Mandarin definitely has a better future. However, it is hard to keep an ABC to continue to speak their native language after they go to Kindergarten. So, we are not sure how effective would it be for her to only learn or speak Mandarin during that 1 or 2 hours of class time. Research says a child can learn a new language when they are younger because they have better language skill. We decide to let Haley try out the Mandarin class till the end of this school year. If she's doing well, maybe we will let her continue in the Mandarin class. In her regular preschool, there is a 20-minute Mandarin lesson everyday. Haley actually picked up some words, children's songs and children's poems in Mandarin from her regular preschool. Will see how it goes... From a parent's point of view, we want our children learn more things and have a better future. However, we don't want to stress them out, instead we want them to have fun while learning.

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