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Lacey’s Story
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Lacey’s Story

An introduction

🔸Background in education

🔸Generations of American assimilation taking precedence over the continuation of the Chinese language

🔸Traveling to China for the first time

🔸Language hopes for our daughter for the future

🔸What’s to come in Lacey’s blog posts

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Who is Lulu?
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Who is Lulu?

Wondering about any of the following about Lulu?

🔸Lulu’s loss of the Chinese language during childhood & through her education

🔸Hopes for her own children to speak Chinese fluently

🔸Languge challenges that arose for Ella & Lukie along the way & what Lulu did to help them with language acquisition

🔸Power of high-quality Chinese books

🔸The need for Chinese books with pinyin

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