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Latest post on 07 May 2014 - 16:16

We are a French expat family with 4 kids (7, 6, 2, 0 y.o), just moved to Dubai after 6 years in China where 3 of our kids were born. Whilst in China, the 7 and 6 y.o both attended a English-Chinese kindergarten with a wonderful concept: all classes had two teachers all day long: a Canadian and a Chinese, each of them speaking his own language ( plus a chinese maid/ayi). This worked perfectly as after 3-4 years spent in that kindergarten our children are almost fluent in both languages: English and mandarin. We would like of course to maintain the Chinese for the 6 and 7 y.o. and we would like the 2 and 0 y/o to speak the language of their birth country as well. Our solution for the moment is to find a Chinese maid/nanny so that would force us ALL continue to talk a bit Chinese at home. I am not sure though that the nanny would be able to transmit a quality mandarin…but better then nothing. Also it seems a very difficult task to find a Chinese maid in Dubai (although there are 60000 Chinese in Dubai). To answer your question: yes we would love to put our 2 and 0 y.o in a Chinese/English school. A criterion is of course the distance from home. We would accept a big maximum of 30 minutes by bus for this small age. We live in Al Manara area, in front of Emirates International School. 5 days a week 8 to 12.30 . English teacher should be a native english speaking person as well the Mandarin teacher should be a chinese native speaker. I have a little passion about early education, nurseries too. I’d be very excited to assist you in any aspect of your new project , if you ever need some help. Well , at list I start getting experience in recruiting Chinese maids in Dubai, by going every weekend to the Dragon Mart and asking around :-) edited by Halva on 16/06/2012

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Latest post on 02 May 2014 - 09:55

Hi ladies, glad to find this forum on the job hunting topic. I too am new to Dubai having been here for 3 weeks due to my husband's work transfer. I like it out here so far, but will be nicer if I had a job. Although I have a 2.5 year old who's keeping me busy currently, I am not used to not working and I like to be I financially independent. I am a qualified mgt accountant having worked in finance in banks in the UK for 10 years before moving here, but compared to the UK the market is so small I find for the types of jobs I do and I've been to a few recruitment consultants and through some contacts, but not got anywhere yet. Looking at everyone's experience here of finding a job, it seems that it takes a while so I'm afraid I will struggle and soon when the dust settles down, I will get bored though I will try to start making some friends of course. My husband's job can be quite demanding and I don't want to moan much about my frustration when he comes home, hence, have come to here to pour out my concern, hope you don't mind. I don't regret leaving my job coming here, as life is treating us pretty good here but I'm not someone used to being a stay at home mum for long, and I'd like to spend my own money too. So any help and advice on how to keep up with the momentum of getting something lined up, and staying positive would be helpful even just on the moral ground for a newbie here. Thanks!

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