if there are grandparents in the house it would be easy to the kid to maintain Mandarin.
I think it has to come naturally. Language environment would be the perfect thing for a kid to learn a language. If at all possible, such as sending the kid back to china for summer holidays or attend a mandarin language summer camp.
My daughter didn't speak English and had difficult time in daycare. I regreat what I did. It is because she is in Canada all the time and there are library story time in English every week. If we didn't exclude her from English environment purposly and just pay a little attention to get her started on English, it should be that hard for her now.
However, I don't know whether the kid would confuse herself if we introduced her both English and Mandarin at the same in the very beginning.
Any parents having experience on this?
I think it has to come naturally. Language environment would be the perfect thing for a kid to learn a language. If at all possible, such as sending the kid back to china for summer holidays or attend a mandarin language summer camp.
My daughter didn't speak English and had difficult time in daycare. I regreat what I did. It is because she is in Canada all the time and there are library story time in English every week. If we didn't exclude her from English environment purposly and just pay a little attention to get her started on English, it should be that hard for her now.
However, I don't know whether the kid would confuse herself if we introduced her both English and Mandarin at the same in the very beginning.
Any parents having experience on this?