Chinese-American and taking Chinese?

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<p>Would my best bet be to put down English as my native language? Because I was born here and such?</p>

<p>I mean, my first words were ‘Dad’ and ‘Mama’. In English.</p>

<p>To clarify more, I was mostly worried about what Colleges – what really matters in my future, because my friend says it’s sad that I didn’t know sufficient Chinese. And she’s like, but we all went to Chinese school. I went for half a year, and didn’t learn a thing. It was all poems, and the teacher didn’t even speak sufficient English. So when I found out I had the chance to take Chinese at my school, as well as the chance to take IB Chinese SL/HL in my Junior and Senior years in the future, I went for it.</p>

<p>I basically have this poster’s situation, found from a similar thread:</p>

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I’m a Chinese-American born in a generally Chinese-speaking household (both parents are proficient in English). However, before taking Chinese as my foreign language, I had no clue how to write or read any Chinese characters. Even though I spoke Chinese at home, my Chinese was not even good enough for general conversational speaking. And it didn’t help that the dialect I spoke was different from the one the schools taught. It required a lot of effort to get good grades in Chinese whereas learning Spanish for me was relatively much easier since all English speakers pretty much know the entire Spanish alphabet already.

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