<p>Is there a course for Chinese Mandarin in your College? If there is, is there many students would choose this course?</p>
<p>In my experience, most people that take Mandarin are Asians. And a good number of them are native speakers that are there for the easy A.</p>
<p>Understood. And I think only guys who wanna travel to China or really are interested in China culture will think about to take Mandarin.</p>
<p>26 students at my college are currently enrolled in first-year Chinese. 8 students are enrolled in 4th-year course. Note that my college only has about 1,300 students.</p>
<p>We have it at my school. But like has been stated, it's mostly native speakers who take it to fulfill the language requirement with easy As. I have a few non-native speaking friends who tried to take Mandarin, but they simply couldn't keep up with the class, as they felt like the majority of people already had some prior experience with it.</p>
<p>lol,Foreign language requirement is evil,not everyone needs that.
I'm so glad my school doesn't have such a weird requirement.</p>
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<p>I know a few people that took it that are really interested in international business and thought it would be useful.</p>
<p>In California many of the high schools offer Mandarin. They frequently have one track for native speakers (spoken at home) versus got sick of French and saw no relavence in German track .</p>
<p>But it doesn't make sense to offer native speakers Mandarin course.</p>
<p>I would say the majority of the kids taking mandarin in the native speakers class can not read Chinese but can speak Mandarin. This is just like schools that offer spanish for native speakers. Many of these kids know slang and speak quickly but could never pass the AP spanish test due to the grammer unless they took a class. The worst thing is putting them in the regular classes and they get all the attention from the teacher since they can joke around with them in spanish. That is what happened to my son.</p>
<p>Do your schools not require a language placement exam?</p>
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The worst thing is putting them in the regular classes and they get all the attention from the teacher since they can joke around with them in spanish. That is what happened to my son.
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<p>Lol, my experience. It's so funny what some teachers say behind kids' backs.</p>
<p>In Mandarin all the natives take chinese 2 and first timers chinese 1. In spanish, french, italian some of the kids who speak at home even can't do the grammer to place out of first or second level</p>
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My school OFFERS a language placement exam; I'm not sure how any school could REQUIRE one. Couldn't the native speaker just choose to bomb it, so that he can take the full track and get his series of easy A's?</p>