<p>I’m from Michigan.</p>
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<p>But they are rude, noisy and dirty! lolol.</p>
<p>To the OP: At least you don’t live somewhere where people insist on speaking Chinese to you just because you look Chinese.</p>
<p>What a fasian.</p>
<p>Oh, Cool place. lol</p>
<p>^^^^lmao fasian, i’m gonna use that term from now on</p>
<p>lol, interesting responses. I actually just moved here from Singapore, and even attended a local Singaporean elementary school from Grades 1-2, so I’m pretty much fluent in my native language, Chinese (have the HSK Advanced). 
It’s a pity that many Asian Americans often end up knowing English much better than their native languages… I grew up with both, mainly because my mom was dead set on having me grow up bilingual. She taught me to read and write simple Chinese characters at the same time I began learning the English alphabet :D</p>
<p>Mandarin is getting more and more important so you should learn it</p>
<p>for me, Canto is my first language, while English being my second and Mando being third :)</p>
<p>HONG KONG FTW</p>
<p>im from romania and i cant speak romanian =[</p>
<p>OP: did you wish to learn Chinese when you were ten years old? It’d be much easier back then. Let me guess - your parents suggested but you didn’t like the idea because it meant too much work. I don’t want to sound mean. I just want to find out something, or make a point to kids in elementary school.</p>
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<p>haha that happened to me, but I was much younger, around 5 or 6. I’m adopted, so my parents suggested I go to a Korean Sunday School to learn Korean. I probably threw a tantrum, so they didn’t make me. I’m kinda glad though, because I was forced to go to Hebrew school, and so a) I didn’t like hebrew and b) I barely learned anything. So I’m glad that I’m going to learn Korean when I want to.</p>
<p>We have two family friends (from diff. families) that have guys in their 30s. both families are either chinese or half chinese. both 30 yo guys complained that their parents didn’t push them to learn chinese. Both families’ parents said they sure did push their kids but they refused to learn. then when they are in their 30s they blame their parents. isn’t it something? so do it before you turn 30.</p>
<p>Aww, original poster person is just like me.</p>
<p>Except I’m 15. And I came around to the USA when I was 3.</p>
<p>Solution: Take CTY Online classes. Unfortunately, I still don’t know how to write because I’m too lazy to take out a pencil and paper, but I can read decently well and speak without totally butchering the language.</p>
<p>I can speak three dialects of Chinese, but I can neither read nor write it.</p>
<p>You can consider taking courses specially tailored to native speakers in College.</p>
<p>However, it’s a serious commitment, not something you decide on spur of the moment.</p>
<p>wait you can’t write a dialect though (for example cantonese, you can’t write it in a “formal” way)</p>