<p>4everdancer18, My parents put me in a Chinese school when I was four, but I didn’t really study the language and just wanted to socialize with the other kids. I really regret not wanting to study it when I was younger. So, I attended CHinese school for a year before they found out I was only concerned about hanging out with kids at recess.</p>
<p>My parents are pretty busy with their jobs and really don’t want to be the ones teaching me; they speak better English than Chinese since they spent a lot of their childhood in the U.S. Chinese was only spoken to me when I was little 'cause I was in China at the time.</p>
<p>So far, I have only watched a couple Taiwanese dramas. I have heard that there are slight grammatical differences between the Taiwanese dialect of Mandarin Chinese and that of the mainland. Have you noticed any grammatical differences? What kind of Chinese/Mandarin dramas would you recommend?</p>
<p>Thanks for your post. What you told me really helps. Good luck with your academic studies as well, fellow Chinese :-)</p>