MANDARIN TREE ACADEMY

We are a locally born Los Angeles Chinese family with 3 young children. We are both young working professionals. I am a Vice-President at a large bank, and my husband works in Corporate Finance. Though Chinese, my husband and I unfortunately did not grow up speaking Mandarin. My husband was sent to a Palos Verdes Chinese school for 5 years, but didn't learn much. In hindsight, he felt that it would have been much easier if his parents were to have begun his Mandarin education in an immersion environment and at an earlier age. So, when our children were born, we wanted them to learn Mandarin for two reasons: our culture and the strong emerging Chinese economy. We felt that it was very important for our children to learn Mandarin during their early childhood. We were fortunate to have found a wonderful home preschool provider in Monterey Park that immersed our children in Mandarin 9 hours a day/5 days a week. Our children easily became fluent Mandarin speakers as they learned to speak...