TLDR: Our family is white (ethnic German), we sent our son to study Chinese in a country which apparently doesn’t speak Chinese among the common population, didn’t realize the mishap until after son landed in Tokyo, requested a refund, but now the university refuses to refund us What happened: My son was deciding on an overseas location to study Chinese Mandarin. We didn’t want to go to actual China, with the communist dictatorship and whatnot. So, we looked for a neighboring country that would offer close to the same quality of Chinese language education that studying in China would actually provide. We found some intense Mandarin-immersion programs at the University of Tokyo, and I recalled all the positive feedback my friends had when visiting Japan. I went, oh! Japan seems like a nice environment to study the language. Before all you holier-than-thou people jump in and call me racist, I am AWARE. That Japan also speaks Japanese. But I didn’t know that Chinese was not spoken AT ALL by the common population. The actual realization happened when my son landed in Japan, and told me that absolutely none of the common people spoke Chinese. Not. A single. One. It ended up that his only exposure to Chinese was at the university. Everyone else in the country, spoke Japanese. As you can probably tell, this is hardly an “immersive” experience, as there was no point in spending thousands and sending him to Japan in the first place. We lodged a complaint with the university requesting a refund on the summer program, but they’re not budging. Any options?
LOL… it’s okay, go with the flow. Japan is a great country and your kid will have a good time. Summer is too short for learning Chinese tbh, so doesn’t really make difference where the kid goes.
Damn. You’re dumb as hell. You didn’t think of Taiwan? You went to Japan to learn mandarin.
We researched Taiwan and it seemed alright, but heard that the Chinese taught there has a “southern twang”. The example we were provided was, learning Chinese in Taiwan, was kind of like learning English with Texas hillbillies. We wanted my son to learn the standard Chinese. Japan also seemed like the better choice because the northern latitude coincided with China’s capital, Beijing.
Huh? The latitude correlated the quality of the Chinese? That’s some weird logic. Anyways, accent aside, not that this dude is gonna be reciting Sun Tzu in a perfect Beijing accent after a summer, better to go to a place they can get actual immersion.
I guess you haven’t learned about Taiwan. Which you should know because your CEO is from there and Taiwan is home of semiconductor.
I responded to the other guy who mentioned Taiwan with the below: We researched Taiwan and it seemed alright, but heard that the Chinese taught there has a “southern twang”. The example we were provided was, learning Chinese in Taiwan, was kind of like learning English with Texas hillbillies. We wanted my son to learn the standard Chinese. Japan also seemed like the better choice because the northern latitude coincided with China’s capital, Beijing.
Just send him to UC Irvine, or UCI, the university of chinese immigrants
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Damn didn’t know nvidia has dumb people
No there’s no options go drink your tears
You might as well try learning Japanese since you are there. What you have done is like sending someone to the US to learn German ✨️ 💛
If this ain't a low key CCP troll, I don't know what is. By the way, your CEO just called Taiwan "an important country." Incoming CCP assassins.
Wtf does the CCP or what Jensen called Taiwan have to anything with my thread? I literally picked Japan to avoid the communist party. What did I just read.
If this ain't a troll thread, you cannot be serious. It's like sending a kid to France to learn German.
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What I don’t understand is why OP wants his/her kid to learn Mandarin when he/she doesn’t want the kid to be in mainland China…. Seems other Chinese speaking regions have high level of English fluency in their populations too….