Strong demand for Mandarin-speaking nannies
Jim Rogers and others are raising children to be fluent in Mandarin so that they will be better prepared for the future global economy dominated by China.
Finding the right nanny took weeks. She had to speak the kind of Mandarin heard in government circles in Beijing. Clifford Greenhouse runs the Pavillion nanny agency in New York. ?There?s been a tremendous surge in demand. We get dozens of requests a year. It is extremely hard to find the right, well-educated, cultured Mandarin speaker,? he said.
