Upper West Side Kids

I've been teaching Mandarin to the little girl on the right for 1 year, who is adopted. I've been going to her daycare and teaching during her play hour 1/wk for 1 year. However, the boy in the middle, who has joined us for the last 3 sessions just for fun, has learned and retained more Mandarin than the girl. it's amazing. And now for the first time she wants to actually learn it b.c she sees him having fun with the words. I taught him how to say I love you (wo ai ni 我爱你) - and he was laughing at how the "ni 你)" which means you, sounds like “knee."So he jokes around "wo ai knee"

Upper West Side Kids Originally uploaded by triciawang 王 圣 㨗.

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