<p>I’m definitely the same as you, sic_infit. I had learned Cantonese, and even then, I forgot so much, like old poems and wisdom and other basic words. I’m currently living my life relearning it, but my problem has been that I was unsure whether my different dialect would still cause college admissions officers to think that, in a way, I ‘cheated’ my way to an A. </p>
<p>So I guess they can’t really say that I know Mandarin right from the start (which I really didn’t, trust me). Cool.</p>