Mandarin Immersion Parents Council

The Verona Press, Oct. 19, 2023

Verona Area High School (VAHS) 2023 graduate Alex Prout has been studying Chinese for 12 years, and he doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon.

In kindergarten, Prout began learning at the Verona Area International School (VAIS) in the very first Two-Way Immersion Mandarin class. Through fifth grade, he spent half the day learning in Chinese and the other in English. 

As a kindergartner, Prout was too young to fully understand the impact the language would have on him. Yet, that all changed when Prout entered middle school. 

“I really started to appreciate the language,” he said.

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