Parents are Teaching Their Infants Chinese to Compete in the Global Economy

Parents are Teaching Their Infants Chinese to Compete in the Global EconomyFrom an article on teaching babies Chinese: "Finding Shirley [their Mandarin-speaking nanny] was no easy task. Jim Rogers put an ad in the China Press and at first got responses only from people who spoke no English or were illegal immigrants. Then, before hiring Shirley, he had friends (Rogers travels to China frequently) test her Mandarin to find out "whether she speaks gutter Mandarin or a queen's Mandarin."

“I don’t want my daughter to grow up and suddenly start talking like a tramp at age 9,” he says.

"Talking like a tramp." Your nine-year-old. I think you have bigger problems than global competitiveness, though I could be wrong.

Thanks to Becca for the link.