Mandarin Immersion Parents Council

From: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Why are non-migrant families sending their children to bilingual schools?

Nyssa has never been to China.

She hasn’t even stepped foot in Chinatown. 

But when the 6-year-old is with friends at school, she speaks Chinese.

“It’s like I know how to speak every language in the world,” she said.

Nyssa studies at a “bilingual school”, where staff and students jump between languages in the classroom and the playground.

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