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Research, insights, and updates on heritage Mandarin learning.
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The week between Saturdays: a Mandarin practice plan that survives a real Tuesday
Saturday school is two hours. The week is 168. Here's the weekday Mandarin plan I'd give a friend at school pickup — three short sessions, one informal day, one rest, around 35 minutes total.
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Your kid forgot 書 by Tuesday. That's fixable.
Spaced repetition schedules a two-minute review on the exact day your kid was about to lose the character. The fix is 140 years old. Here's why it matters more for heritage Mandarin than for anything else.
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'Pick it back up later' isn't a plan.
'They'll pick it back up later' is the most common heritage-Mandarin reassurance — and the research is more specific. What actually happens between 8 and 12.
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