{"id":8503,"date":"2019-10-28T03:56:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T03:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-reading\/to-improve-kids-039-chinese-parents-head-to-asia\/"},"modified":"2019-10-28T03:56:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T03:56:01","slug":"to-improve-kids-039-chinese-parents-head-to-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/to-improve-kids-039-chinese-parents-head-to-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"To Improve Kids' Chinese, Parents Head to Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael Roemer had never lived abroad before he took a one-year leave of absence from his job as an attorney, rented out his family’s Orinda, Calif., house, and moved to Chengdu, a city in western China, in 2010 with his wife and two children.
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Mr. Roemer’s goal: to give his kids, Erin and Conor, an up-close look at China and an edge in what is fast becoming a must-learn language. ‘Speaking Mandarin is im<\/em>portant,’ says the 57-year-old Mr. Roemer.The Roemers are among a growing group of Westerners going to great lengths to give their kids a leg up in Mandarin. With China’s rising global influence, these parents want their children to be able to communicate fluently with the country’s 1.3 billion people. The phenomenon is similar to what happened in the ’80s, when Japan’s eco<\/em>nomy boomed and there was a rush to learn Japanese.
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But this time, after-school classes aren’t enough for some people. Families are enrolling their children in Mandarin-immersion programs that are springing up from California to Maine. They are hiring tutors, Skyping with teachers in Beijing and recruiting Chinese-speaking nannies. Some are stocking their playrooms with Disney videos in Mandarin\u2500not to mention the iPhone apps aimed at making kids into Mandarin speakers.
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Of learning Mandarin, Mr. Roemer says, ‘mastering that challenge gives [the kids] a great deal of confidence.’ Learning Chinese, he adds, is ‘good for the brain.’ Still, he says it was stressful watching his children struggle in a place wher at first they didn’t understand much of what was happening at school.
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Now back in the U.S., the Roemer kids say they value that year in China learning Mandarin, even if they can’t quite keep it up now. ‘It was cool living in a foreign country’ for a year, though achieving command of Mandarin’s to<\/em>nes remains difficult, says Erin, age 9. Her 11-year-old brother Co<\/em>nor says he likes being able to switch into a different language when he doesn’t want other people\u2500like his father\u2500to understand. ‘Sometimes my dad doesn’t know as much as we do, so if we’re talking a<\/em>bout his birthday present we can keep it from him,’ Co<\/em>nor says.
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Recruiters say Mandarin gives candidates an edge in the job market. ‘When it comes to Mandarin speakers, we don’t have them [in the U.S.], so does it give you a competitive advantage to have it? The answer is yes,’ says Michael Distefano, a Los Angeles-ba<\/em>sed senior vice president at executive recruiting firm Korn\/Ferry International. Mr. Distefano’s own son is studying Mandarin in high school, with an eye towards possibly working in Asia.
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