I don't think that my daughter understood what the words meant

Bei Qianni, mother of a 6-year-old girl who enrolled at a top bilingual primary school in Shanghai in September

My daughter's experience has made me believe that it benefits children to develop a mindset by using a foreign language as "another mother tongue" from a young age.

My daughter went to a bilingual kindergarten she was 2-and-a-half, where she had a Chinese and an expatriate teacher in class.