Bilingualism/Multilinguism

[mati]

I speak English to my girl, my husband speaks French to her, we have a mandarin teacher come to our place twice a week since Zoe is 1.5 yrs old. Zoe now is 5 years old, she speaks good English, so so with French. Just surprisingly, Zoe speaks Mandarin fluently. Logically, Zoe should speak better French as she hears and speaks French every day at home with her Daddy, however, Mandarin is just twice a week. We believe it's all because of Zoe's Mandarin teacher, Zoe likes her a lot, she makes Zoe feel interested in learning Mandarin, that's why Zoe often asked me how to say this in Mandarin, how to say that in Mandarin. So I do believe the interest is the best teacher.

 

[fatchai]

hi all:
i need some advice from all experiences parents here. my son is 2.5 years old now and his English level is still at the single or double words level. me and my wife speak English to him since he was born because my wife isn't a local Chinese people. but both of us aren't native English speaker also. when he turned 2 yr old, we decided to put him in the English stream nursery class because we tot it would improve his English but it turned out to be not an ideal case. This coming September he will be going to K1 class and i have already enrolled him to attend the regular English/Chinese class. With his current language abilities, i m worry he can't cope with the new environment at school. Still have 1/2 years before the K1 class starts, is there anything i could help him to improve both his English/ Chinese abilities. i have been discussed with my son's issue with his current nursery class teacher but she told me that i don't need to worry too much at this moment. i need a second opinion because i think she jut try to delay my question and response and later she can close my case when the semester ends.