American kids reading in Mandarin Chinese

The readers are born in the USa and English is their primary language but they aren't too bad at reading and speaking Mandarin Chinese either!

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[mysteriouscamaro]

are they reading pinyin or chinese characters? they sound really great! i'm taking chinese right now in college and currently learning, "wo shi xuesheng. ni ne?" haha

[yuhogan]

@mysteriouscamaro They are reading in Chinese characters.

[JPLucipher]

她们能明白自己说的是什么吗。。。

[yuhogan]

@JPLucipher

她们懂她们读的故事。

[kenichiku]

If they're born in the USA they're American.

[kittenwithagun]

"are borned"?!! "what the big deal"?! You're criticizing two little girls who can speak two languages so well at their age, and here you are, barely able to speak one. I think you should give them a little more credit, and learn your English grammar better, before commenting posts like this.

[KawaiiLuber]

you see i cant read Chinese but i can speak it Perfectly :( the girl in the read seems soooooooo boredd :D

[MoonfulBlue]

@ryuu304 Same for me. I used to talk vietnamese with my family, but then I went to french school so I don't speak anymore, they speak to me in Viet but I answer back w/ french... =l

[MrSmile888]

lol...the girl in the pink can speak beter than the red one...

[yousurehuh]

they are adorable..

[ryuu304]

nostalgic...

technically i learned chinese before english. heck, i could recognize chinese characters at age 2. then, i grew up and didn't want to be so "asian" and unfortunately forgot about 75% of what i learned in about 6 years of chinese school. oh, i was born in canada too. my parents talk to me in chinese i talk english back. it's sad :( anybody been to a similar situation?

[avie1995]

its really intresting because when i was 3 i was learning mandarin and english and at 5 i was pretty fluent but i stopped speaking when i was 7 because i stopped speaking with my family and english was my dominant language im going to chinese school again not fun and i actually found out that i still have my accent a little bit