Why take Mandarin Lessons? Mandarin has emerged as the new must-have language with parents all over the world seeing their kids learning Mandarin at an early age as an advantage. Professor David Crystal, one of the world's foremost experts on the subject of language advises, ‘People who used to be able to make their way in the world as monolingual English speakers are now finding that they’ve got to compete with people who are genuinely multilingual’.
In just five years, the number of people learning Mandarin worldwide has soared to 30 million and it has been estimated that by 2010, 100 million people worldwide were learning Mandarin.
Furthermore, locally here in Australia we have seen growng demand from parents and the business community to encourage and inspire our children to learn Mandarin. There have been several articles supporting this and more recently, a paper has been published about this by The University of Sydney looking at 'Why every child under fiftreen should learn to speak Chinese'. Brett Lovejoy of the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages reports, ‘Students want to sign up for it; parents are asking for it; communities are asking for it.’ Mandarin Stars provides the building blocks for your child to join this international community by developing affinity for the Mandarin language in their early years. Why Mandarin now? Kids have an incredible ability to learn Languages at a young age. The ability to effortlessly absorb a new language begins to decline by age six, according to Robert DeKeyser, a professor of second-language acquisition at the University of Maryland. According to a senior lecturer responsible for pre-service teacher education in languages at Macquarie University, Dr Robyn Moloney, 'there has been much research showing that ''second-language learning increased cognitive power, divergent thinking and creativity, enhanced literacy ability in the first language and communicative abilities''. Moloney says children have the ability to understand and use a second, third or fourth language without inhibition, without confusion and, ''with a beautiful accent''. By exposing your child to Mandarin lessons at an early age, you will be laying the foundations for fluency in Mandarin as they grow and develop. Enrolment in the innovative Mandarin Stars program will help to inspire a positive attitude towards a new linguistic community which is ultimately central to the future success of your child’s bilingual skills. If you would like to read more articles or research on when and how to teach your child Mandarin, please take a look at some of the independant articles posted on our blog and wesbite here. Sew the seeds for your child’s future fluency in MandarinInspire confidence and enthusiasm for learning BOOK YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! Tel: 8437 2498 / Email: enrol@mandarinstars.com.au Mandarin Stars: Finalist for the 2010 Business Achiever Awards! 
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